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    The Indian Election and the Country’s Economic Future

    Raghuram G. Rajan

    Economically, India today feels like a place of limitless possibilities. But with only a narrow window in which to grow rich before it grows old, the policy decisions it makes today will have an outsize influence on its future prospects.

     worries that the country will squander its massive potential by trying to emulate China's growth strategy.
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    The US-China Trade War Heats Up

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    Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Carl Bildt, Dani Rodrik, Qiyuan Xu, Arvind Subramanian

    A spate of new US tariffs on Chinese goods has raised the specter of full economic decoupling between the world’s two largest economies. For many observers, the measures are not only misguided, but also counter-productive, with the potential to undermine economic dynamism, hamper climate action, and trigger geopolitical conflict.

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    Divestment from Israel Will Not Bring Peace

    Anne O. Krueger argues that meeting protesters' demand would weaken US universities – one of America’s sources of strength.
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    Europe’s Carbon Border Tax Advances the Fight Against Climate Change

    Jeffrey Frankel shows how the European Union’s carbon-price mechanism could encourage other countries to follow suit.
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    Africa Can’t Prosper Without Regional Trade

    Kingsley Moghalu argues that the continent has been missing a key ingredient of robust, sustained growth.
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    The Dilemmas of the Dollar

    Barry Eichengreen asks whether anything can or should be done about the greenback's strength, especially against Asian currencies.
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    The “Billions to Trillions” Charade

    Jayati Ghosh explains why using development banks' resources to incentivize private-sector finance is unlikely to succeed.
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    How Europe Can Get the Green Deal Done

    Simone Tagliapietra proposes EU-level measures that would help offset the negative distributional effects of climate policy.
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    What’s Driving the Global Gold Rush?

    Harold James considers the political factors pushing the price of the “barbarous relic” to all-time highs.
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  1. Europe’s Carbon Border Tax Advances the Fight Against Climate Change
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    Europe’s Carbon Border Tax Advances the Fight Against Climate Change

    May 24, 2024 Jeffrey Frankel shows how the European Union’s carbon-price mechanism could encourage other countries to follow suit.

  2. Africa Can’t Prosper Without Regional Trade
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    Africa Can’t Prosper Without Regional Trade

    May 24, 2024 Kingsley Moghalu argues that the continent has been missing a key ingredient of robust, sustained growth.

  3. Divestment from Israel Will Not Bring Peace
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    Divestment from Israel Will Not Bring Peace

    May 24, 2024 Anne O. Krueger argues that meeting protesters' demand would weaken US universities – one of America’s sources of strength.

  4. The US-China Trade War Heats Up
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    The US-China Trade War Heats Up

    May 24, 2024 PS Commentators analyze the latest escalation of the economic rivalry between the world’s two largest economies.

  5. The Indian Election and the Country’s Economic Future
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    The Indian Election and the Country’s Economic Future

    May 24, 2024 Raghuram G. Rajan worries that the country will squander its massive potential by trying to emulate China's growth strategy.

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    The Indian Election and the Country’s Economic Future

    Raghuram G. Rajan

    Economically, India today feels like a place of limitless possibilities. But with only a narrow window in which to grow rich before it grows old, the policy decisions it makes today will have an outsize influence on its future prospects.

     worries that the country will squander its massive potential by trying to emulate China's growth strategy.
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    The Rise of Mesoeconomics

    William H. Janeway explains how a long-neglected field of economic study can be applied to today's most pressing policy challenges.
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    Adekeye Adebajo on the Non-Aligned Movement, United Nations peacekeeping, African institution-building, and more

    Adekeye Adebajo argues that Israel’s war in Gaza is accelerating the trend toward global apartheid, highlights the strengths and weaknesses of United Nations peacekeeping missions, criticizes the militarization of US engagement with Africa, and more.
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    How Exceptional Is China’s Crony-Capitalist Boom?

    Yuen Yuen Ang explains how corruption both drove the country's GDP growth and sowed the seeds for its current economic problems.
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    India’s Despotic Election

    Debasish Roy Chowdhury explains how Prime Minister Narendra Modi has eroded democratic safeguards and stacked the deck in his favor.
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    Alison L. LaCroix on the US Supreme Court, immigration policy, federalism, and more

    Alison L. LaCroix explains why “originalist” methods of constitutional interpretation are deeply ahistorical, describes the zero-sum relationship between state and federal power in modern America, identifies possible historical analogues for the upcoming US presidential election, and more.

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    How Europe Can Get the Green Deal Done

    Simone Tagliapietra proposes EU-level measures that would help offset the negative distributional effects of climate policy.
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    How G7 Leaders Can Unlock Financing for Africa

    William Ruto

    With many African countries trapped in perpetual cycles of debt, financing investment in sustainable development has become increasingly difficult, if not impossible. The situation demands that wealthy countries step up and offer debt relief and cancellation, in addition to more concessional and long-term financing.

     urges wealthy countries to help bring the global financial system into line with the developing world's needs.
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    Only Public-Private Cooperation Can Accelerate Decarbonization

    Francesco La Camera & Bruce Douglas explain how to translate political commitments into actual wind turbines and solar panels.

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  2. Joschka Fischer Reckoning With a New Authoritarian Bloc
  3. Ana Palacio Is Europe Too Big for Further Enlargement?
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  1. Jeffrey Frankel Europe’s Carbon Border Tax Advances the Fight Against Climate Change
  2. Simone Tagliapietra How Europe Can Get the Green Deal Done
  3. William Ruto How G7 Leaders Can Unlock Financing for Africa
  4. Francesco La Camera, et al. Only Public-Private Cooperation Can Accelerate Decarbonization

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  3. Peter Singer When Is Criticism of Israel Anti-Semitic?
  4. Ian Buruma The Privileged Gaza Protesters

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

  1. Kingsley Moghalu Africa Can’t Prosper Without Regional Trade
  2. William Ruto How G7 Leaders Can Unlock Financing for Africa
  3. Rachel Ruto Clean Cooking Advances Women’s Empowerment

Today’s media landscape is littered with landmines: open hostility from illiberal and autocratic regimes, mounting censorship in countries such as Hungary, Turkey,…

  1. Jodie Ginsberg Our Freedoms Depend on Press Freedom
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