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IN LATE SEPTEMBER workers erected a new structure in Tiananmen Square. It is 18 metres tall, resembling a basket of fruit and flowers. Similar floral-themed displays have sprung up across [...]

For YEARS Nigeria and Ethiopia, sub-Saharan Africa's second- and third-biggest economies, defied the market orthodoxy embraced elsewhere on the continent. But reform is in the air. Barely a year into [...]

When times are tough, politicians reach for metaphors. In Ethiopia, which floated its currency and entered a $3.4bn IMF programme on July 29th, the prime minister Abiy Ahmed (pictured) compared [...]

China's 'reform and opening' policy began more than four decades ago in the countryside. It involved dismantling Mao Zedong's disastrous 'people's communes' and giving farmers their own plots of land [...]

The Chinese Communist Party has just finished its https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2024/07/16/what-is-the-chinese-communist-partys-third-plenum , a big meeting held roughly twice a decade devoted to long-term reform. From July 15th to 18th more than 360 [...]

BUT FOR snap elections on June 30th, this should have been a time for Paris to celebrate. Seldom has the City of Light sparkled so brightly. In a month, France's [...]

Outside Argentina's Senate on June 12th riot police manned barricades as protesters surged forward. Some screamed at the police to take off their helmets and join them. One lawmaker staggered [...]

EIU expects the third plenum session of the Chinese Communist Party's central committee to be convened in April-May, with focus on economic reform. However, the reform is more likely to [...]

The US could fund its deficits but political partisanship is in the way, Research Affiliates' Chris Brightman wrote. Solutions include adjusting Social Security and implementing a national value added tax. [...]

The centre-right president, Daniel Noboa of Acción Democrática Nacional (ADN), has signed into law his flagship economic reform bill following its approval by lawmakers. At the heart of the legislation [...]

Not long ago, Chinese President Xi Jinping was riding high. He had consolidated power within the Chinese Communist Party. He had elevated himself to the same official status as the [...]

Chairman of National Business Group Pakistan, President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum, and All Karachi Industrial Alliance, and former provincial minister Mian Zahid Hussain on June 17 said the steps [...]

What's happened? On March 17th Kuwait's minister of Public Works and Youth Affairs, Ali Hussein al-Mousa, survived a no-confidence vote, suggesting that the government's conciliatory measures have at least succeeded [...]

It is not often that a Ritz-Carlton becomes a detention facility. But last November, when a large slice of the Saudi elite was arrested on accusations of corruption, the luxury [...]

Abuzz with opportunity The government approves small and medium-sized enterprises at last ON AUGUST 6TH the Cuban council of state approved a long-awaited law authorising the creation of small and [...]

On August 1st Brazil's legislative branches will return following the southern hemisphere winter recess to face a pivotal session: the government hopes to pass the remainder of its economic reform [...]

A failure to reform is poised to produce a lurch to the far left FOR MUCH of this century Peru stood out in Latin America as a success. The economy [...]

FILE - Minister of Finance Mohamed Ma'it CAIRO -- 27 October 2020: Egypt would not have succeeded in containing the repercussions of the Coronavirus crisis that won everyone's praise if [...]

Event The prime minister, Moeketsi Majoro, has promised to begin the long delayed multi-sector (political, constitutional and economic) reform process in September this year, and to complete it by September [...]

The president's pandemic spending unnerves the liberal economy minister JAIR BOLSONARO, Brazil's president, ought to be in trouble. His is one of the countries worst affected by covid-19. It has [...]

Conservative governments have a habit of self-destructing: they die not in battle with political enemies but as a result of vicious infighting. It's been less than three years since Boris [...]