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Besides the crucial COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver, far more is at stake at this ministerial than is generally known.

Re-evaluating the “equality-efficiency” trade-off

Regulators propose democratizing data and encouraging competition to reign in Big Tech. But such moves won’t go far enough in protecting user privacy. New: A reply to critics

The neoliberal economy was supposed to bring about a utopian world order. Instead, it gave us crippling psychological stress and social breakdown. How can we ever recover?

Fragility and Resilience in Green Development in Africa: Intersections and Trade-offs

A new global economic system has to be based on a key principle of Bretton Woods: multilateralism

In a new book, How Novelty and Narratives Drive the Stock Market, economist Nicholas Mangee examines the influence of stories on stock market outcomes in an uncertain world.

A new view of stock market instability under Knightian uncertainty

Many studies of the effect of climate change on GDP seriously mislead the research community, policymakers, and the general public.

Governments and civil society organizations must work together with UNCTAD to provide developing countries the tools — and the transformed governance regimes — they need to “build back better” through these challenging and difficult times.