List of Economics articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 West Africa’s Financial Immune Deficiency
Health systems in Africa are ill-equipped to deal with Ebola. And that's partly the fault of IMF policies.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Afghanistan Going off the Rails as U.S. Withdrawal Speeds Up
Insurgent attacks rise as poppy cultivation reaches a post-Taliban high in Afghanistan.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Middle East Meltdown
In a region now crowded with failed states, a murderous terrorist group has gained a foothold, changing the power dynamics and the United States needs to pay attention.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Questioning the Faith in the Cradle of Islam
In Saudi Arabia, a new generation is pushing back against the government’s embrace of fundamentalism. But is the kingdom ready for nonbelievers?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Some of the News That’s Fit to Print
Progress on media freedom is backsliding in Myanmar. Will Obama speak up to save his biggest foreign-policy success?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Foot Spas, Steamed Buns, and Midday Drinking
Chinese bureaucracy has run amok, and the country's president is trying to rein it in.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Eastern Ukraine’s Fake State Is About to Elect a Fake Prime Minister
The region is under constant shelling. Its borders change daily. It's not even clear what powers this new government will have. But darn it, the Donetsk People’s Republic is holding an election on Sunday.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Is Bahrain Outsourcing Extremism?
The Bahraini government has been working overtime to crush pro-democracy activists. But what about followers of the Islamic State?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Kremlin’s $220 Million Man
Igor Shuvalov, Russia’s deputy prime minister, is supposed to have the cleanest hands in the Kremlin. So where’d he get a quarter of a billion dollars?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Pendulum and the President
An exclusive excerpt from “National Insecurity: American Leadership in an Age of Fear.”
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Royals Flush?
Why Egypt, of all places, is keeping a wary eye on falling oil prices.