Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Years ago, I visited a rural province in India and ...

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, European imperial powers preferred to control certain colonial territories by indirect means: they sought to co-opt local economic and cultural elites ...

The closing of Chez Jean Pierre left the international dining scene on Stamford's Bedford Street without a French connection. But only a few months later, Barrique Bistro and Wine Bar is taking its ...