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How Poverty Reduction Can Survive Deglobalization | by Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg - Project Syndicate
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By sharply curtailing international trade, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated a trend that was already underway. It is now more important than ever for developing countries to seek alternatives to export-led growth.
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Project Syndicate Developing countries would do well to focus more on reducing income and wealth #inequality, not just because it is good for social harmony, but because it can create the conditions for domestic-led growth, writes . 50h
Reclaiming American Greatness | by Joseph E. Stiglitz - Project Syndicate
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After nearly four years of US President Donald Trump and the Republicans undermining the state and looting the public purse, it is no wonder that the country was so unprepared for the COVID-19 crisis. America’s best hope now lies with Joe Biden,...
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Project Syndicate Making America hate again has not made it great again. Only by restoring trust and social solidarity under new leadership can the country be put back on the right track, explains . 3d
The Green Recovery - Project Syndicate
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Project Syndicate Live now at our virtual #sustainability event, Carlos Lopes () speaks about the world's simultaneous crises: #climatechange and #COVID19. #TheGreenRecovery Watch here: 3d
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Project Syndicate We are seeing a positive momentum on both the climate and nature agendas, explained of and at our virtual #sustainability event. Join tomorrow at 9:00 AM EDT (13:00 GMT) for more from the world's leading thinkers: 3d
Africa Needs Market-Creating Innovation | by Carl Manlan & Efosa Ojomo - Project Syndicate
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Africa’s economic growth over the last 25 years has been accompanied by soaring inequality, which the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to worsen. Developing innovative products for the continent's poorer "nonconsumers" will provide a more predictable,...
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Project Syndicate To generate shared prosperity, #African firms must focus on building new markets in Africa, for Africans, argue and . That means prioritizing market-creating #innovations. 4d
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Project Syndicate Creating new markets often requires significant investments to attract customers who are deemed too poor to consume, note and . But this is precisely how #Africa can start to become more prosperous. 3d
How to Save Nine Million Children | by Samir Saha - Project Syndicate
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A new, low-cost vaccine that protects against pneumonia enabled Bangladesh to halve the number of severe cases in five years. Now that the World Health Organization has approved the vaccine, it should be rolled out wherever it is needed.
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Project Syndicate A new, low-cost vaccine that protects against pneumonia enabled Bangladesh to halve the number of severe cases in five years. | 4d
An interview with Ian Goldin - Project Syndicate
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This week, PS talks with Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalization and Development at the University of Oxford and the co-author (with Robert Muggah) of Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years.
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Project Syndicate .: Pandemics pose a much larger and farther-reaching threat than war, but we currently allocate more than 1,000 times more resources to our militaries than we earmark for pandemic preparedness and response. 6d
Transforming Africa’s Agriculture | by Tony Blair - Project Syndicate
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Strengthening Africa’s agriculture systems will not only make the continent more self-reliant and resilient to future shocks, but will also boost global health, prosperity, and security. The international community therefore has both moral and...
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Project Syndicate #Africa’s development will be critical to the world’s future stability, prosperity, and health, argues Tony Blair of . Given this, the continent should be receiving much more international attention. 6d
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Project Syndicate The World Food Programme warns that the number of people suffering from acute hunger in low and middle-income countries – including in Africa – could almost double this year, to 265 million, as a result of the pandemic.  5d
Taking Climate Risk Seriously | by Hauke Engel & Mekala Krishnan - Project Syndicate
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The current pandemic has demonstrated how quickly global risks can multiply and spread, and why resilience and risk management are vital to protecting the world from other threats – and climate change in particular. As we have learned firsthand in...
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Project Syndicate Last month, Hauke Engel and Mekala Krishnan explained the parallels between the #CovidCrisis and the threat of #climatechange. Want to learn more about #sustainability in the age of #COVID19? Tune in to our virtual event, #TheGreenRecovery, next week. 7d
India’s Silenced Parliament | by Shashi Tharoor - Project Syndicate
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With India facing a raging pandemic, an economic crisis, and mounting security threats, its parliament has a vital job on its hands when it reconvenes in mid-September. But the legislature risks being reduced to a noticeboard for the decisions of a...
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Project Syndicate .: #Indian Prime Minister ’s government seems utterly helpless amid the country's economic failure, apparently paralyzed in its inability to respond to the plummeting indicators in every sector. 7d
9/11 in Perspective | by Richard Haass - Project Syndicate
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Ten years after the 9/11 attacks in the US, we still want to find ways to make ourselves less vulnerable and terrorists more so. But what may be most important, particularly in the Arab and Islamic communities, is to end any acceptance of terrorism.
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Project Syndicate It has been 19 years since the 9/11 terror attacks. One decade after the attacks, wrote, “terrorism must lose its legitimacy among those who have historically supported or tolerated it before it will lose its potency.” #NeverForget 8d
Stop Doing Business | by Jayati Ghosh - Project Syndicate
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The World Bank should no longer publish its Doing Business index, owing to its flawed design and vulnerability to manipulation. The Bank also owes the developing world an apology for all the harm this misleading and problematic tool has already...
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Project Syndicate How could the ’s #DoingBusiness index have been so off the mark with regard to #Chile and #India? asks . Although conflicts of interest may be partly to blame, the index's biggest problem is its deeply flawed design. 8d
Planning for Crisis Resilience | by Ricardo Hausmann - Project Syndicate
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Large international disparities in the economic cost of the COVID-19 crisis should surprise no one. The question is what can be done to ensure that economies are able to bounce back as quickly as possible.
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Project Syndicate Countries confronting #COVID19 differ dramatically not only in terms of the effectiveness of their public-health measures, notes , but also in terms of the pandemic's impact on their foreign earnings and access to international finance. 9d
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Project Syndicate . of offers several suggestions to enable economies now in free fall to bounce back strongly from the pandemic. 8d
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Project Syndicate Unless effective political leadership bounces back from the #pandemic, little else will, warns of . 7d
The Pandemic’s Most Treacherous Phase | by Barry Eichengreen - Project Syndicate
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The most dangerous phase of the COVID-19 crisis in the US may actually be now, not last spring. If the economy falters a second time, whether because of inadequate fiscal stimulus or flu season and a second COVID-19 wave, it will not receive the...
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Project Syndicate Like it or not, there is every indication that many Americans, or at least their current leaders, are willing to accept 40,000 new #COVID19 cases and 1,000 deaths per day, notes . 10d
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Project Syndicate The most hazardous phase of the #COVID19 crisis in the US will most likely start next month, warns . 7d
Africa’s Peace and Prosperity Begin at Home | by Abiy Ahmed - Project Syndicate
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For too long, Africa has been a strategic plaything of world powers. By bolstering its internal cohesion and economic integration, the continent can become a strong geopolitical force with an independent and unified voice on important global issues.
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Project Syndicate Closer #African economic integration will make every country a stakeholder in its neighbors’ security, argues Ethiopian Prime Minister . This will advance continental peace and strengthen Africa internationally. 10d
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Project Syndicate As #Africa integrates, it is increasingly setting its own development and foreign-policy agenda freely and independently of other powers, notes Ethiopian Prime Minister . But dangers remain, not least in the Horn of Africa. 8d
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Project Syndicate .: Economic integration is the key to realizing Africa's geopolitical ambitions. 5d
The Coming Global Technology Fracture | by Dani Rodrik - Project Syndicate
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Today's international trade regime was not designed for a world of data, software, and artificial intelligence. Already under severe pressure from China’s rise and the backlash against hyper-globalization, it is utterly inadequate to face the three...
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Project Syndicate . of the argues that new technologies pose three challenges to global trade that current international rules, already under severe pressure, cannot address. 10d
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Project Syndicate The US is free to close its market to , says of the . But US efforts to internationalize its domestic crackdown lack legitimacy. 9d
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Project Syndicate .: Today's international trade regime was not designed for a world of data, software, and artificial intelligence. 6d
The Great Services Illusion | by Célestin Monga - Project Syndicate
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In the wake of COVID-19, some economists are calling for developing countries to shift from industrialization to services, or even to bypass the manufacturing stage of development altogether. But blind faith in services-led growth is a dangerous...
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Project Syndicate The belief that services are the new holy grail for developing countries has been bolstered by the pandemic's disruption of global value chains, notes . But the death of manufacturing as the key to development has been greatly exaggerated. 11d
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Project Syndicate Developing countries have a comparative advantage in low-skilled labor, notes . They should not seek to mimic the services-led growth strategy in vogue in advanced economies without having the human capital needed to sustain it. 10d
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Project Syndicate Low-skilled services may help large population groups to escape extreme poverty, but they are not reliable engines of growth and sustainable transformation, argues . 9d
The Revenge of the Special Relationship | by Ian Buruma - Project Syndicate
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Of all the older democracies, it is in Britain and the United States that right-wing populists have taken over conservative parties and rule their respective countries. This is not an accident, but rather an outcome that has been 75 years in the...
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Project Syndicate When #Britain was still very much a global power in the 1950s, other Europeans would have been happy to let it take the lead and shape the continent’s future. Ian Buruma explains why Britain ignored the opportunity. 12d
The Unfinished Agenda of Financing Africa’s COVID-19 Response | by Brahima Coulibaly, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Vera Songwe - Project Syndicate
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The continent’s pandemic-response funding gap is likely to amount to some $100 billion annually over the next three years. The international community – especially the G7, the G20, and multilateral development banks – must take bold, innovative, and...
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Project Syndicate Not only should consider a new allocation of Special Drawing Rights, say , , and , #G20 countries should also make the $129.7 billion in unused #SDRs they already hold available to developing/emerging economies. 12d
Digital Finance for a Fairer Post-Pandemic World | by Maria Ramos & Achim Steiner - Project Syndicate
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Digitalization provides a historic opportunity to reset private and public finance in order to help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. And the COVID-19 crisis is the ideal moment to seize it.
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Project Syndicate Digitalizing government payments could save developing countries between $220-320 billion annually, note Maria Ramos and of . This money could then be redirected to fund development. 13d
Is Trump a Turning Point in World Politics? | by Joseph S. Nye, Jr. - Project Syndicate
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Will Donald Trump’s presidency mark a major turning point in world history, or was it a minor historical accident? Trump's electoral appeal may turn on domestic politics, but his effect on world politics could be transformational, particularly if he...
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Project Syndicate Does ’s presidency represent a major turning point in America’s role in the world, or is it just a minor historical accident? | 13d