In Asia, East Africa and the Gulf leaders now face an unpleasant choice
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The longer autocrats stay in power, the worse they become
A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist
Air power, full-on invasion, arming the opposition: the result is usually the same, writes Philip Gordon
The third way in development economics
Economic growth in Malaysia and Indonesia has not led to secularism
They cannot rely on politicians alone to fix the region’s abysmal corporate governance
