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    A Chinese Bubble Long in the Making

    Yi Fuxian

    The Chinese government is very good at covering up small problems, but these often pile up into much bigger ones that can no longer be ignored. The current real-estate bubble is a case in point, casting serious doubts not just on the wisdom of past policies but also on China's long-term economic future.

     traces the long roots of the country's mounting economic and financial problems.
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    Laying Chicago Economics to Rest

    Antara Haldar

    From breakthroughs in behavioral economics to mounting evidence in the real world, there is good reason to think that the economic orthodoxy of the past 50 years now has one foot in the grave. The question is whether the mainstream economics profession has gotten the memo.

     looks back on 50 years of neoclassical economic orthodoxy and the damage it has wrought.
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    Africa Is the Future of Multilateralism

    Mark Malloch-Brown explains why the continent should be at the forefront of efforts to bring about international reforms.
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    Putin and Kim’s Cartoon Summit

    Nina L. Khrushcheva thinks that Russia's recent meeting with North Korea was intended primarily as a warning to the South.
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    Saudi Arabia’s New Nationalism

    Bernard Haykel explains the reasoning behind the Kingdom's ongoing domestic- and foreign-policy transformation.
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    The Green Growth Mindset

    Gernot Wagner sees doctrinaire debates about capitalism as irrelevant or even deleterious to the decarbonization effort.
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    Affirmative Action Under Siege

    Ashwini Deshpande shows how the supreme courts in India and the US have undermined efforts to address serious discrimination.
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    America’s Broken Civic Bargain

    J. Bradford DeLong worries that Republicans have abandoned one of the core principles that sustains a democracy over time.
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    Is AI a Master or Slave?

    Joschka Fischer wonders whether humanity can even hope to maintain control in an era of “mega-crisis.”
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    Putin and Kim’s Cartoon Summit

    Sep 29, 2023 Nina L. Khrushcheva thinks that Russia's recent meeting with North Korea was intended primarily as a warning to the South.

  2. Saudi Arabia’s New Nationalism
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    Saudi Arabia’s New Nationalism

    Sep 29, 2023 Bernard Haykel explains the reasoning behind the Kingdom's ongoing domestic- and foreign-policy transformation.

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    The Green Growth Mindset

    Sep 29, 2023 Gernot Wagner sees doctrinaire debates about capitalism as irrelevant or even deleterious to the decarbonization effort.

  4. Africa Is the Future of Multilateralism
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    Africa Is the Future of Multilateralism

    Sep 29, 2023 Mark Malloch-Brown explains why the continent should be at the forefront of efforts to bring about international reforms.

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    A Chinese Bubble Long in the Making

    Sep 29, 2023 Yi Fuxian traces the long roots of the country's mounting economic and financial problems.

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    1

    A Chinese Bubble Long in the Making

    Yi Fuxian

    The Chinese government is very good at covering up small problems, but these often pile up into much bigger ones that can no longer be ignored. The current real-estate bubble is a case in point, casting serious doubts not just on the wisdom of past policies but also on China's long-term economic future.

     traces the long roots of the country's mounting economic and financial problems.
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    Ashoka Mody on Indian corruption, growth, jobs, and more

    Ashoka Mody explains the roots of the lack of accountability in India, highlights shortcomings in human capital and gender equality, casts doubt on the country’s ability to assume a Chinese-style role in manufacturing, and more.
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    Financing Our Survival

    Vera Songwe explains what it will take to mobilize capital for the net-zero transition worldwide.
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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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    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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    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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    The Siren Song of Climate Authoritarianism

    Jan-Werner Mueller explains why messy, slow-moving democracy is still the best system for tackling global warming.

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