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Can the Conference on Financing for Development Succeed?

NEW DELHI – It is easy to be pessimistic about multilateralism nowadays. Recent international gatherings – including the 2023 Sustainable...

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Jayati Ghosh

Europe’s Hard Road to Strategic Sovereignty

MADRID – No alliance is eternal; it lasts only until it is no longer useful for at least one of the parties. That was true for France and Israel in...

yesterday 6

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Shlomo Ben-Ami

Central Asia’s New Playbook

BISHKEK – Central Asia – encompassing the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan – was...

yesterday 7

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Djoomart Otorbaev

ASEAN+3 in a Fragmenting World

SINGAPORE – The risks posed by the fragmentation of the multilateral trading system transcend mere inefficiencies. Without a coherent, rules-based...

yesterday 6

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Hoe Ee Khor

The Twilight of US Global Influence

yesterday 7

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The Costs of Victimomics

CHICAGO – For an enterprising politician, perhaps the easiest political strategy nowadays is to tell unhappy voters that they are victims – of the...

previous day 10

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Raghuram G. Rajan

Lonely Authoritarians

NEW YORK – The very public and acrimonious split between US President Donald Trump and his once-favorite aide Elon Musk would be amusing if it were...

previous day 8

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Nina L. Khrushcheva

The Mirage of Geoeconomics

MILAN – A few years ago, there was an overarching global consensus on trade: the freer, the better. Only nerdy economists spent much time agonizing...

previous day 8

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Daniel Gros

Green Crime Goes Global

RIO DE JANEIRO – In late 2024, Brazilian federal police dismantled a sprawling illegal gold mining network in Pará, exposing a criminal enterprise...

previous day 8

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Robert Muggah

Can a Footnote Save the Fed?

FALMOUTH, UK – The independence of the US Federal Reserve is back in the spotlight. Late last month, Fed Chair Jerome Powell met at the White House...

tuesday 70

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Barry Eichengreen

Climate Finance Needs a Conductor

SINGAPORE – As the multilateral order comes under growing strain, several trends are becoming increasingly clear. International development...

tuesday 40

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Archi Rastogi

Abundance for Workers

CAMBRIDGE – The surest way for policy advocates to lose a progressive audience is to start talking about the economy’s supply side, the importance...

tuesday 20

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Dani Rodrik

A Defining Moment for Global Development Finance?

CAIRO/ROME/JOHANNESBURG/LOS ANGELES – Rising uncertainty over the future of global trade and multilateralism is threatening to derail the long-term...

tuesday 20

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Mahmoud Mohieldin

Africa’s Creative Boom

WASHINGTON, DC – In February, Afrobeats singer Tems won the Grammy for Best African Music Performance. Her achievement underscores the genre’s...

tuesday 10

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Landry Signé

Trump’s Diplomacy of the Absurd

PRETORIA – Last month, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa became the first African leader to visit the White House during US President Donald...

09.06.2025 10

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Adekeye Adebajo

The Age of AI Drone Warfare Is Coming

SAN FRANCISCO – Ukraine’s June 1 assault on airbases across Russia has already ushered in a new conventional wisdom: the expensive, human-crewed...

09.06.2025 3

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Charles Ferguson

Insurers Must Promote the Blue Economy

PARIS – Covering more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, the ocean is indispensable for global health, climate regulation, and, crucially, economic...

09.06.2025 1

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Ulrike Decoene

Rebuilding the Aid Consensus

LONDON – In 2015, the United Kingdom’s then-prime minister, David Cameron, stood before the United Nations General Assembly and challenged other...

09.06.2025 30

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Kevin Watkins

Four Reasons Why US Treasury Yields Are Rising

LONDON – Sovereign bond yields have been rising sharply around the world, driven by growing concerns over US President Donald Trump’s economic...

09.06.2025 2

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Dambisa Moyo

The Bonfire of the Banking Regulators?

RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA – As US President Donald Trump intensifies his campaign to dismantle the regulatory state, Peter Conti-Brown and Sean H....

06.06.2025 10

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Willem H. Buiter

Trump’s War on Knowledge

NEW YORK – US Vice President J.D. Vance could not have made his point more clearly when, in a 2021 speech taking aim at American universities, he...

06.06.2025 10

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Ian Buruma

America Needs a Smarter Government, Not Just a Smaller One

BOSTON/LOS GATOS – Elon Musk’s four-month run leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has ended amid a predictably public and petty...

06.06.2025 6

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Michele Zanini

Rethinking Europe’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism

BEIRUT/ADDIS ABABA/CAIRO – As the climate crisis escalates, the European Union and the United Kingdom are moving forward with their Carbon Border...

06.06.2025 1

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Rola Dashti

Ukraine’s Strategic Game-Changer

NEW YORK – On June 1, Ukraine conducted one of the most extraordinary asymmetric operations in modern military history. Using domestically built...

06.06.2025 5

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Ian Bremmer