Give Americans a Debt Brake
Since 1960, the United States has raised its debt ceiling 78 times – soon to be 79, if Congress approves the latest last-minute deal....
Dirty Money and Tainted Philanthropy
In 2017, life expectancy in the United States fell for the third successive year. The decline is occurring because an increase in the death...
Risky Retirement Business
The challenges posed by an aging population are manifold, and they are neither new nor unique. The populations of Italy and Japan have been...
Lessons from India in Digital Disruption
Digital technology can rapidly transform how countries provide services such as education and health to their citizens. The public services of the future should...
Data Protection is Social Protection
In recent decades, social assistance programs around the world have been strengthened to the point that they now benefit more than 2.5 billion people,...
Climate records tumble, leaving Earth in uncharted territory – scientists
By Georgina Rannard, Erwan Rivault, Jana Tauschinski
BBC climate reporter & data team
A series of climate records on temperature, ocean heat, and Antarctic sea ice...
New Approach to International Tax Cooperation
By José Antonio Ocampo
Exclusive to THE TIMES KUWAIT
As one of the world’s most unequal regions, Latin America is desperately in need of additional revenues...
Preempting a Generative AI Monopoly
ChatGPT, the new artificial-intelligence chatbot developed by the San Francisco-based research laboratory OpenAI, has taken the world by storm. Already hailed as a milestone...
The Missing Element in Economics
By Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg
Special to The Times Kuwait
Last month, the economics community rejoiced when the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize...
Migration Myths vs. Economic Facts
On 19 December, 2018, the United Nations General Assembly voted to adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, with 152 votes...
