Kaushik Basu, a former chief economist of the World Bank and chief economic adviser to the Government of India, is a professor of economics at Cornell University and a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. This article is provided by Project Syndicate (PS).
Jan 10 , 2026 . By Kaushik Basu
The global outlook appears increasingly grim. Escalating conflicts and resurgent auth...
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These are harrowing times. Amid soaring inequality, political leaders in many countri...
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