English is spoken as lingua franca among the people of many countries across the world. It has proved its credential as the ...

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Does it pay to speak English? This column by Mehtabul Azam, an economist at the World Bank, Aimee Chin, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Houston, and Nishith Prakash, Visiting ...