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Despite concerns about Indonesia's democracy, over 200 million voters will have the opportunity to elect a new president this week with current Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto holding a strong lead ...

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Why are some countries rich and others poor? It’s among the most important questions in economics—in all the social sciences—and one at the heart of the work for which MIT’s Daron Acemoglu and Simon ...

This year, the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to three economists, Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson, who argue that institutions are the fundamental cause of long-run ...

Political commentators, academics and others have been wringing their hands over threats to democracy in recent years. A new study helps us better understand one of the possible driving forces behind ...

ABC News is reporting preliminary results from exit-poll data. Broad economic discontent, sharp divisions about the nation's future and polarized views of the major-party candidates mark voter ...

OSLO, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter should be praised for his "decades of untiring effort" to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts and to advance democracy and ...

Ahead of the 2027 general elections, Nigeria’s foremost diplomat, Ibrahim Gambari, has said the country must strengthen ...