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By Project Syndicate - Feb 20,2023
By Benigno López and Eric ParradoWASHINGTON, DC — The barriers to economic progress in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are as well-known as they are formidable. Inequality is high, tax evasion is rampant and education systems are inadequate.
By Project Syndicate - Feb 15,2023
By Tobias Bunde and Sophie EisentrautMUNICH — While the world’s powers may not agree on much these days, most recognise that the world is at a critical juncture.
By Project Syndicate - Feb 07,2023
By Michael Spence and Belinda AzenuiMILAN/GRANVILLE, OHIO — The United States has a productivity problem, though one would never know it from looking only at the industries producing goods and services that are traded internationally.
By Project Syndicate - Feb 07,2023
By Daron Acemoglu and Simon JohnsonCAMBRIDGE  —  Microsoft is reportedly delighted with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a natural-language artificial-intelligence program capable of generating text that reads as if a human wrote it.
By Project Syndicate - Feb 05,2023
By María Fernanda Espinosa, Ulrich Volz and Yuefen LiNEW YORK/LONDON/GENEVA — November last year was a busy month of climate-change politicking.
By Project Syndicate - Feb 04,2023
By Safia Boly and Omid KassiriNAIROBI — The COVID-19 pandemic, compounded by supply-chain disruptions and surging inflation, has highlighted the fragilities of Africa’s food systems, leading to a 60 per cent increase in hunger across the continent in 2020 alone.
By Project Syndicate - Jan 24,2023
By Naveen Rao and Eloise ToddSAN DIEGO — A day before the latest United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) began, a group of global experts convened by The Lancet published a report about the adverse health effects of climate change.
By Project Syndicate - Jan 23,2023
By Gordon Brown and Yasmine SherifEDINBURGH — In the weeks since the Taliban’s December 2022 decree banning young women from attending university, Afghans have shown that they will not take this latest outrage lying down.
By Project Syndicate - Jan 16,2023
By Aziz Huq and Tom GinsburgCHICAGO — Midterm elections in the United States were surprising in more ways than one.
By Project Syndicate - Jan 15,2023
By Thiago de Aragão and Otaviano CanutoSÃO PAULO — The January 8 insurrection in Brazil’s capital was driven by a mix of factors. Participants’ delirium, passion, obstinacy and resentment, as well as their lack of education and political literacy, all played a part.

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