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Europe should rethink its aid to Palestine
Spanish hopes of moving the peace process definitively toward a final settlement look like overblown bluster, writes Richard Youngs. But Europe could help, by supporting the grassroots
Tackling insurgents is not enough for America
By allowing counterinsurgency to lead Afghanistan policy, we risk militarising every other endeavour there, writes Tyler Moselle
Political ideas need proper testing
It is time to apply a little science to public policy. True randomised trials could validate – or reject – new approaches to education, crime and benefits, writes Tim Harford
The weak renminbi is not just America’s problem
The Chinese currency requires a multilateral rules based solution rather than a bilateral confrontation. What is needed is a new rule in the World Trade Organisation proscribing undervalued exchange rates, writes Arvind Subramanian
States embark on a scramble for cyberspace
Laws and treaties of the kind used to carve up the world in the 19th century are often irrelevant in the vast unchartered territory of the internet, writes Misha Glenny
China’s property bubble is worse than it looks
If the renminbi is appreciated, overheating of export sectors will be slowed, while standards of living will improve with higher purchasing power, writes Takatoshi Ito
Towards the empathic civilisation
New ideas about human nature throw into doubt many of the core assumptions of classical economic theory, writes Jeremy Rifkin
America needs to invest in jobs – and fast
We need employment programmes for the 6.4m young people graduating this summer from high school and college, write Leo Hindery and Donald Riegle
We need explicit rules for bail-outs
The developments of the past few months related to assessments of financial institutions, or even of sovereign countries, suggest that the issue of moral hazard cannot be tackled simply by assuming that crises will not occur, by Lorenzo Bini Smaghi
Europe must sharpen competition policy
The European Round Table of Industrialists has identified four areas in which reforms would benefit consumers and business, write Jacob Wallenberg and Leif Johansson
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