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Andy Sumner

Andy Sumner

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Andy Sumner is Professor of International Development at King’s College London and a non-resident senior research fellow at UNU-WIDER.

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  1. hausmann93_YURI CORTEZAFP via Getty Images_maduro venezuela Yuri Cortez/AFP via Getty Images

    What Should Biden Do About Venezuela?

    Ricardo Hausmann & José Ramon Morales-Arilla

    Former US President Donald Trump's policy of maximum pressure on the Venezuelan dictatorship failed to dislodge the regime or alleviate the humanitarian crisis. If Joe Biden is to succeed, he will need a policy that makes life as burdensome as possible for the elite and as bearable and democratic as possible for ordinary Venezuelans. 

     warn that negotiations without sanctions, as some advocate, is a strategy that leads nowhere.
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    The Second Jacksonian Age

    Gordon S. Wood

    The Jacksonian era in antebellum America was, like our own age, a time of extreme democratization and rampant anti-elitism. Now, too, the democratization of knowledge and truth can produce an odd mixture of credulity and skepticism among many ordinary Americans. 

     highlights the striking similarities between the current political era and an earlier “epoch of the hoax.”
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    A Test for Ivory Coast’s Democracy

    Alassane Ouattara

    Public trust in politicians – essential to individual freedom and collective development – depends on free, fair, and transparent elections. Fortunately, the Ivorian government has worked hard to ensure that the parliamentary election on March 6 is a democratic success. 

     is confident that the upcoming parliamentary election will reinforce his country's recent progress.
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    Is Inflation Alive?

    Huge fiscal and monetary stimulus programs have sparked a growing debate about whether advanced economies may sooner or later experience the sort of rapid price growth last seen a generation ago. While stimulus advocates point to current weak demand and the public’s deeply ingrained low-inflation expectations, anxious hawks fear that a new and dangerous global inflationary consensus may be taking hold.

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    Sarkozy’s Conviction Is a Win for the Rule of Law

    Josef Joffe

    From France to America, democratic countries are affirming the fundamental principle of government by law, not by men (and women). That is the message of our time that should reassure the Cassandras who believe that despotism is on a roll. 

     sees in the former French president's sentencing the reaffirmation of a principle going back to Magna Carta.
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