LONDON — It is one of the most celebrated graphs ever produced by economists. The chart, first published in 2013 by Branko Milanovic and Christoph Lakner using data from the World Bank, shows global ...

It has become known as “The Elephant Graph” because of its shape but it could just as easily describe the size of its insight about the political and economic world we live in right now. Former World ...

There is, to use the great cliche, an elephant in the room. The room is globalisation, the increasing international economic integration we have lived through over the last few decades. The elephant ...

In a recent article, I presented solid evidence that the global economy has been doing very well for the world’s poor during the past 25 to 35 years. China’s growth has been stellar, India’s has been ...

The room is globalisation, the increasing international economic integration we have lived through over the last few decades. The elephant is what that development has arguably done to the ...