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    The World Is Still on Fire

    Lawrence H. Summers & N.K. Singh

    For the last several years, world leaders have made big promises and laid out bold plans to mitigate the climate crisis and help the neediest countries adapt. At this year's World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings, they must demonstrate that they can fulfill these promises, rather than simply touting new ones.

     think policymakers need to get four things right to shore up the credibility of the international system.
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    Israel Must End the Gaza War

    Dennis Ross

    With the exception of the extreme right, no one in Israel wants to be stuck in Gaza, responsible for 2.4 million Palestinians, and facing a likely insurgency. Israel can end this war soon and save those hostages who are still alive, having demilitarized Gaza and set the stage for an alternative to Hamas.

     thinks the only strategic objective that matters is close – or close enough – to being met.
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    Who Should Decide If It’s Genocide?

    David Alton, et al. urge British policymakers to take a proactive approach to addressing mass-atrocity crimes.
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    China Stifles Its Own Debate

    Stephen S. Roach bemoans the transformation of the country’s most important platform for open dialogue into a schmooze-fest.
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    The World Cannot Afford to Ignore the Poorest Countries

    Indermit Gill & M. Ayhan Kose warn that a growing gap between the world’s haves and have-nots will undercut global goals.
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    The Bretton Woods Institutions We Need

    Joaquim Levy, et al. explain how the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank can rise to current global challenges.
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    Will Boeing Crash Shareholder Value?

    Katharina Pistor sees the troubled company as a textbook example of a broader problem afflicting corporate governance.
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    A New Engine for Human Learning and Growth

    Shruti Rajagopalan explains what AI could do for India and many other countries in the Global South.
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    Governments Must Shape AI’s Future

    Mariana Mazzucato & Fausto Gernone urge policymakers to see themselves as proactive participants in technological innovation and market-making.
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  1. Who Should Decide If It’s Genocide?
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    Who Should Decide If It’s Genocide?

    Apr 16, 2024 David Alton, et al. urge British policymakers to take a proactive approach to addressing mass-atrocity crimes.

  2. The Bretton Woods Institutions We Need
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    The Bretton Woods Institutions We Need

    Apr 15, 2024 Joaquim Levy, et al. explain how the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank can rise to current global challenges.

  3. The World Cannot Afford to Ignore the Poorest Countries
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    The World Cannot Afford to Ignore the Poorest Countries

    Apr 15, 2024 Indermit Gill & M. Ayhan Kose warn that a growing gap between the world’s haves and have-nots will undercut global goals.

  4. The World Is Still on Fire
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    The World Is Still on Fire

    Apr 15, 2024 Lawrence H. Summers & N.K. Singh think policymakers need to get four things right to shore up the credibility of the international system.

  5. Israel Must End the Gaza War
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    Israel Must End the Gaza War

    Apr 15, 2024 Dennis Ross thinks the only strategic objective that matters is close – or close enough – to being met.

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    Governments Must Shape AI’s Future

    Mariana Mazzucato & Fausto Gernone

    As with social media, the incentives around AI are aligned for rent extraction, where large companies, acting as intermediaries, amass profits at others’ expense. Governments urgently need to step in to ensure that the technology is being designed and brought to market in ways that will serve the common good.

     urge policymakers to see themselves as proactive participants in technological innovation and market-making.
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    Is Techno-Monopoly Inevitable?

    William H. Janeway assesses a new theory of “technological market power” and its effects on the modern economy.
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    Joseph S. Nye, Jr., on nuclear risk, American hubris, great-power competition, and more

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr. calls for restoring the credibility of the US nuclear umbrella, highlights the role of nongovernmental agencies in international relations, worries that the US will play its cards poorly vis-à-vis China, and more.
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    The Struggle for Currency Supremacy

    Paolo Tasca expects that digital assets will accelerate efforts to create alternatives to the US dollar.
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    The Indian Giant Has Arrived

    Mohamed A. El-Erian & Michael Spence consider the risks and challenges associated with the country's rapidly expanding global footprint.
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    Angela Huyue Zhang on Chinese innovation, regulation, AI, and more

    Angela Huyue Zhang warns that China’s lax approach to regulating artificial intelligence could lead to a crisis, highlights the impact of the market’s deep-seated mistrust of the Chinese legal system, considers how Western regulatory trends influence China, and more.

“It is better to ask forgiveness than permission” has been the mantra of the digital revolution so far, and one should not expect that to change with artificial intelligence. For those already in a position to dominate this potentially groundbreaking sector, the opportunities are too enticing to miss.

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    Taxing Polluters Is the Key to Climate Justice

    Laurence Tubiana makes the case for new levies to finance green investments in developing countries.
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    Solar Geoengineering Is a Dangerous Distraction

    Yacob Mulugetta, et al. urge the international community to heed African countries’ warnings about speculative climate fixes.
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    China Doubles Down on Green Tech and the Energy Transition

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  4. Eswar Prasad, et al. A Weak, Uneven Global Recovery

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  3. Shlomo Ben-Ami Europe’s War Jitters
  4. Sławomir Sierakowski Beating Back Populists at the Grassroots

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  3. Jane Kabubo-Mariara Africa’s Prosperity Depends on Achieving Gender Equality
  4. Mariana Mazzucato How to Save the Pandemic Treaty

  1. Laurence Tubiana Taxing Polluters Is the Key to Climate Justice
  2. Ricardo Hausmann The Bioeconomy Will Not Save the Amazon
  3. Yacob Mulugetta, et al. Solar Geoengineering Is a Dangerous Distraction
  4. Stuart P.M. Mackintosh China Doubles Down on Green Tech and the Energy Transition

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  4. Andrew Sheng, et al. China Needs a Better Innovation Ecosystem

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  4. Ian Buruma The Case for Israel Remains Valid

Africa’s economic rise is a world-changing development, but the sources of its emerging strength – and lingering weaknesses – are little understood. W…

  1. Peter Doyle Leaving Africa’s Colonial-Era Currency Will Be Hard, But May Be Wise
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Today’s media landscape is littered with landmines: open hostility from illiberal and autocratic regimes, mounting censorship in countries such as Hungary, Turkey,…

  1. Natalie Dunleavy Campbell, et al. The US Is Jeopardizing the Open Internet
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  1. Mariana Mazzucato How to Save the Pandemic Treaty
  2. Helen Clark, et al. Delivering the Pandemic Accord the World Needs
  3. Gordon Brown Empowering the Pandemic Accord