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Istanbul: The chief economist of the global airline body says the “sweet spot” of passengers blindly accepting high fares may soon be over, as inflationary pressures in multiple sectors could dampen the appetite for travel.The airline…

Peter Tulip, who worked at the Reserve Bank for nine years, said there was a lack of internal and external scrutiny of the bank and called for new leadership. Governor Philip Lowe’s seven-year term ends this year.Loading“A big theme of the…

South Africa’s central bank is reluctant to pivot away from policy tightening after raising its benchmark interest rate into restrictive territory amid rand weakness and government missteps that continue to fuel inflation. Read: R2.5m…

Economists “have an image of practicality and worldliness”, the Nobel laureate Robert Lucas told students graduating from the University of Chicago in 1988, “but we are basically storytellers, creators of make-believe economic…

The findings seem like a remarkable turnabout compared to prior research from Hanushek, who had for four decades concluded in academic work that most studies show no clear relationship between spending and school performance. His work has…

Ministry of Finance chief economist Shira Greenberg released an updated macro forecast today in which she reduces expected GDP growth and state revenues. According to the revised forecast, Israel’s economy will grow…

Padma Desai, as a graduate student at Harvard. Despite her personal setbacks, she later became an exceptional mentor to studentsPadma Desai had both a scholarly and a personal understanding of the impact that systems of total control can…

Artificial intelligence will be dangerous in the hands of unscrupulous people, according to Microsoft Corp Chief Economist Michael Schwarz. “I am confident AI will be used by bad actors, and yes it will cause real damage,” Schwarz said…

Close-up of a yellow-fever mosquito biting human skin, it's a culicidae vector of malaria, yellow fever, chikungunya, dengue and zika virus in Brazil, known locally as mosquito da dengue.Joao Paulo Burini | Moment | Getty ImagesNigeria this…

The writer is emeritus professor of international studies at Simon Fraser UniversityMichael Lipton, who has died aged 86, was an economist who dedicated his career to understanding and solving the problem of poverty in low-income…