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South Korea is one of just a few countries ever to transform itself from a low- to high-income economy, and the only country to go from a recipient of aid from the OECD’s Development Assistance...

I recently gave a talk about industrial policy at the International Monetary Fund. That is a sentence you probably would not have read even a few years ago: historically, the IMF has been a sharp...

Industrial policy has returned to government agendas across the developed and developing world. While the US Inflation Reduction Act has shocked America’s Asian and European trading partners, the...

When Joe Biden landed in South Korea last month – his first official trip to the country as US President – he headed straight for Samsung’s massive semiconductor factory outside Seoul. There, he...