By Raghuram G. Rajan and Viral AcharyaCHICAGO/NEW YORK  —  The malfunctioning of the government bond market in a developed economy is an early warning of potential financial instability.

By Izabella Teixeira, Ana Toni and Laurence TubianaBRASÍLIA  —  Reactionary populism is now the biggest obstacle to tackling climate change.

By Gernot Wagner and Tom BrookesNEW YORK  —  Economists are supposed to be good at understanding risk. Decision-making in the face of uncertainty, after all, is the discipline’s bread and butter.

By Andrei Kolesnikov and Denis VolkovMOSCOW  —  The West and the Kremlin have one thing in common: both like to point out that Russian President Vladimir Putin has an 80 per cent approval rating, and opinion polls have consistently shown that a majority of Russians supp

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By Joyce Banda, Danilo Türk and Jorge QuirogaEDINBURGH  —  Global Education is in crisis. Today, nearly 300 million children do not go to school, and 800 million young people will leave school without any qualifications.

By Yasmine Sherif and Gordon BrownEDINBURGH  —  Following this year’s catastrophic flooding in Pakistan, millions of young Pakistanis’ life opportunities are hanging by a thread.

By Sofia Monsalve and Georgina Catacora-VargasHEIDELBERG/LA PAZ  —  In October 2021, two tractors with a large chain stretched between them cleared more than 2,000 hectares of forest in the Brazilian Cerrado, one of the world’s most biodiverse areas.

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