Praveen Jha

Higher spending does not necessarily mean better lives

Economic development must be made environmentally sustainable, but commonly used terms are too fuzzy to convey that message well.

The international community has sensible goals, but needs a coherent policy framework to achieve them.

The budgets of many developing countries and emerging markets are far too constrained

What the NDB and AIIB have in common – and how they differ

Why Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa as a group are no real counterweight to the US-led G7

There is an international trend to draft green deals, but they are not up to task

The comparison of India with China shows that formal democracy does not necessarily lead to more development-oriented governance

Statistics show that Communist China has been outperforming formally democratic India for decades

After dramatic social-spending cuts, it does not make much sense to speak of a European social model anymore