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    What Climate Finance Needs

    Nouriel Roubini & Reza Bundy

    To prevent catastrophic climate change and accelerate the global transition to a net-zero economy, policymakers and asset owners urgently need to rethink how we channel capital at scale. The key is to develop new financial instruments that are profitable, liquid, and easily accessible to savers and investors globally.

     explain what it will take to channel private capital and savings toward sustainable development.
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    Whither the G20?

    Takatoshi Ito

    Following the latest G20 summit, the G7 should be thinking seriously about deepening its own ties with more non-aligned countries. If the Ukraine war drags on, and if China continues to threaten to take Taiwan by force, the G20 will be split between friends of the BRICS and friends of the G7.

     sees the grouping as increasingly divided between friends of the G7 and friends of China and Russia.
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    Making the Most of Africa’s Strategic Green Minerals

    Marit Kitaw explains how the continent can move beyond resource extraction to build green industry.
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    Measuring Corruption in China

    Yongheng Deng & Shang-Jin Wei outline a novel approach to assessing the extent and scope of the country's graft problem.
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    To Protect Democracy, Revive Local Journalism

    Laura Tyson & Lenny Mendonca identify promising new models and philanthropic initiatives geared toward supporting independent media.
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    America Must Join Europe’s Climate Club

    Gary Yohe & Roger Kuhns urge US policymakers to create a carbon-pricing policy in line with the bloc’s emissions-reduction plan.
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    Transforming Systems for Sustainability

    Neo Gim Huay highlights key principles for transforming food systems, energy use, and infrastructure.
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    How to Achieve Universal Cancer Care

    Sonali Johnson urges governments worldwide to include the disease in national health-insurance schemes.
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    The Roots of Polish Populism

    Sławomir Sierakowski interviewed by Irena Grudzińska Gross about Law and Justice's electoral successes and hold on power on the eve of Poland's general election.
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    Whither the G20?

    Sep 21, 2023 Takatoshi Ito sees the grouping as increasingly divided between friends of the G7 and friends of China and Russia.

  2. Making the Most of Africa’s Strategic Green Minerals
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    Making the Most of Africa’s Strategic Green Minerals

    Sep 21, 2023 Marit Kitaw explains how the continent can move beyond resource extraction to build green industry.

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    America Must Join Europe’s Climate Club

    Sep 21, 2023 Gary Yohe & Roger Kuhns urge US policymakers to create a carbon-pricing policy in line with the bloc’s emissions-reduction plan.

  4. Measuring Corruption in China
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    Measuring Corruption in China

    Sep 21, 2023 Yongheng Deng & Shang-Jin Wei outline a novel approach to assessing the extent and scope of the country's graft problem.

  5. To Protect Democracy, Revive Local Journalism
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    To Protect Democracy, Revive Local Journalism

    Sep 20, 2023 Laura Tyson & Lenny Mendonca identify promising new models and philanthropic initiatives geared toward supporting independent media.

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    The Roots of Polish Populism

    Sławomir Sierakowski interviewed by Irena Grudzińska Gross about Law and Justice's electoral successes and hold on power on the eve of Poland's general election.
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    Mónica Araya on electric vehicles, US climate policy, the EU-Mercosur trade deal, and more

    Mónica Araya welcomes progress toward zero-emission transport, laments the fossil-fuel industry’s outsize influence over governments everywhere, argues that European climate action should be based on a people-centered political narrative, and more.
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    Chile’s 9/11, Fifty Years Later

    Sebastián Edwards offers a chronicle of the military coup and its morally complicated economic legacy.
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    Whose AI Revolution?

    Anu Bradford refutes the argument that democratic governments cannot regulate artificial intelligence effectively.
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    Teresa Ghilarducci on US debt, the retirement age, Social Security, and more

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    William H. Janeway considers the impact of technical advances and political power on socioeconomic outcomes over two centuries.
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    America Must Join Europe’s Climate Club

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    Fully Replenishing the Green Climate Fund

    Vera Songwe & Mahmoud Mohieldin urge advanced economies to help developing countries by ensuring that the GCF has the resources it needs.
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