insights

Just as Vito Corleone realised too late which rival Don was pulling the strings against him, it looks ever more as though the oil price has been driving markets all along. Photo: Bloomberg
Panorama

'The Godfather' insight on what’s driving markets

“The Godfather” has a quote for everything. Maybe, just maybe, it was Putin all along. Or perhaps its was Nikolai Kondratiev

The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare many vulnerabilities in our economic systems and shown us just how precarious the lives of the poor really are. Photo: Saikat Bhadra
Thoughts

Public food transfers during pandemic: Insights from an IFPRI survey

From left Dr Muhammad Mustafizur Rahaman and Niaz Ahmed Khan. Illustration: TBS
Thoughts

Beyond conventional bureaucracy: Insights from public administration’s social responsibility in Qatar