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Economics needs a climate revolution
By Project Syndicate - Jul 03,2021
By Tom Brookes and Gernot WagnerBRUSSELS/NEW YORK — Nowhere are the limitations of neoclassical economic thinking, the DNA of economics as it is currently taught and practiced, more apparent than in the face of the climate crisis.
Pandemics and political performance
By Project Syndicate - Jun 30,2021
By Francis Fukuyama and Luis Felipe López-CalvaSTANFORD/GENEVA — The COVID-19 pandemic has created a laboratory for testing different governance systems in the face of a public-health crisis, ultimately revealing massive variance in country performance.
Building an inclusive, networked UN
By Project Syndicate - Jun 27,2021
By María Fernanda Espinosa and Danilo TürkQUITO/MADRID — Great-power competition, the troubling rise of xenophobic nationalism, existential environmental threats, and the ongoing COVID-19 onslaught present major global governance challenges.
Deciding humanity’s future
By Project Syndicate - Jun 23,2021
By Johan Rockström, Marcia McNutt, and Brian SchmidtSTOCKHOLM — At the recent G-7 summit in Cornwall, Sir David Attenborough described the decisions currently facing the world’s richest countries as “the most important in human history”. He is right.
Vaccine hesitancy or systemic racism?
By Project Syndicate - Jun 23,2021
By Tian Johnson, Stephaun E. Wallace and Maaza Seyoum JOHANNESBURG/SEATTLE/ADDIS ABABA — When the United States began to roll out COVID-19 vaccines earlier this year, uptake in black communities lagged behind their white counterparts.
How Latin America should navigate US-China tensions
By Project Syndicate - Jun 21,2021
By Felipe Larraín and Pepe ZhangSANTIAGO — Once a peripheral presence in Latin America, China has become one of the region’s most important partners.
A half-century of endless drug war
By Project Syndicate - Jun 19,2021
By Helen Clark ,Olusegun Obasanjo and Ricardo Lagos GENEVA — Fifty years ago this week, US President Richard Nixon declared that drug abuse was “public enemy number one” requiring a “tough on crime” approach in the United States and abroad.
Post-communist lessons for the green transition
By Project Syndicate - Jun 19,2021
By Werner Hoyer and Sabine MaudererBRUSSELS — Three decades after the events that lifted the Iron Curtain and sparked the integration of central, eastern and south-eastern Europe into the global economy, we are on the cusp of a new historic transition.
The benefits of bottom-up entrepreneurship
By Project Syndicate - Jun 15,2021
By  M. Niaz Asadullah and Mishhatur Rahman KUALA LUMPUR — As Bangladesh turns 50 this year, the country has much to celebrate. Its human-development progress has been exceptional compared to that of its South Asian neighbours.
A global tax deal for the rich, not the poor
By Project Syndicate - Jun 14,2021
By Jose Antonio Ocampo and Tommaso Faccio NEW YORK — Historic, game-changing, revolutionary: Such has been the widespread reaction to the recent agreement by G-7 finance ministers on a global minimum effective tax rate of “at least” 15 per cent for large multinational firms.

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