Both technocrats proved huge successes in their finance portfolios. Mr Singh, in the early 1990s, was credited with being the brains behind India's most reformist government ever.

There are two competing narratives about economic policy. In one, economists have no clue how to manage advanced economies, or else we wouldn’t have faced the Great Recession, Europe wouldn’t ...

Technocrats have served before as minister, commissioner or board chairman. So, the hue and cry for them now seems to be self serving, especially at the national level.

But, if technocrats are allowed to determine long-term policy and set objectives, democracy itself is in serious jeopardy. ISTANBUL – A simplistic (actually, naive) view of markets is that they exist ...

The rise of unelected technocrats to political power in Greece and Italy suggests, at least superficially, that the old taboo against technocratic governments pursuing an EU-dictated agenda has been ...

There are many reasons for desperation in Beijing at the moment. The economy is slowing fast, but unlike previous years, the stimulus options for technocrats are severely limited. The country, for ...

Potomac Watch: Infrastructure talks are in trouble because unions won’t give up the PRO Act. Image: Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images Progressives know they can’t pass their ambition to ...

KABUL—The Taliban brought some outsiders into their new Afghan government, giving positions to technocrats, businessmen and members of ethnic minorities following widespread criticism that the ...

Asia & Pacific Afghanistan’s defining fight: Technocrats vs. strongmen April 12, 2015 By Sudarsan Raghavan ...

The midlevel technocrats who opted to stay in most cases did not face explicit government threats or coercion, said Aleksandra Prokopenko, a former monetary policy adviser at Russia’s Central ...

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