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Ban Ki-moon

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Ban Ki-moon, Deputy Chair of The Elders, is a former secretary-general of the United Nations and a former South Korean foreign minister.

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  1. Unity on Ukraine Is Unity on Peace and Justice
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    Unity on Ukraine Is Unity on Peace and Justice

    Feb 23, 2023 Ban Ki-moon & Juan Manuel Santos explain why accountability for Russia matters even for countries that would prefer to stay out of the conflict.

  2. The Climate Fight Is Asia’s Leadership Opportunity
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    The Climate Fight Is Asia’s Leadership Opportunity

    Nov 14, 2022 Kevin Rudd & Ban Ki-moon urge the region's leaders to unite the G20 agenda around the opportunities offered by the green transition.

  3. How to Make the Pandemic History
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    How to Make the Pandemic History

    Feb 17, 2022 Ban Ki-moon, et al. call for upcoming high-level international meetings to be used to close the ACT-A funding gap.

  4. The World Needs a Breakthrough Year
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    The World Needs a Breakthrough Year

    Jun 7, 2021 Graça Machel, et al. show why 2021 can be a turning point toward a healthier, greener, safer, and fairer world.

  5. Returning to Multilateralism
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    Returning to Multilateralism

    Sep 23, 2020 Ban Ki-moon urges leaders gathering virtually for the UN General Assembly to recommit to global cooperation.

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    Here We Go Again?

    Fifteen years after the collapse of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers triggered a devastating global financial crisis, the banking system is in trouble again. Central bankers and financial regulators each seem to bear some of the blame for the recent tumult, but there is significant disagreement over how much – and what, if anything, can be done to avoid a deeper crisis.

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    The Coming Doom Loop

    Nouriel Roubini

    In the face of high and persistent inflation, recession risks, and now a looming insolvency crisis in the financial sector, central banks like the US Federal Reserve are facing a trilemma. Unable to fight inflation and provide liquidity support simultaneously, the only solution is a severe recession – and thus a broader debt crisis.

     warns that liquidity support will not be enough to prevent a deeper financial crisis and economic downturn.
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    Crises of Uncertainty

    Harold James fears the consequences of policymakers’ continual revision of economic and financial governance rules.
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    Destructive Decoupling

    Michael Spence

    Policymakers in both the United States and China seem to have fully accepted, and even embraced, the logic of economic decoupling. But what exactly will decoupling entail, and what will its consequences be?

     tallies the costs of the global economic fragmentation that the US-China rivalry has set in motion.
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    Xi Jinping’s Idea of World Order

    Mark Leonard explains China’s new strategy for appealing to developing countries and emerging economies.
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    Tyranny’s Propagandists Are Winning

    Maria Ressa & Nishant Lalwani urge funders and policymakers to commit significant funds to support public-interest journalism.
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    Dodgy Climate Finance

    Ricardo Hausmann argues that many assistance programs misrepresent the amount of aid being provided.
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    Tick TikTok Goes Globalization

    Kenneth Rogoff thinks efforts to restrict American users’ access to the app are hypocritical and counterproductive.
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    To Reconstruct Turkey, Rebuild Its Democracy

    Daron Acemoglu & Cihat Tokgöz think the country needs not just a new government but a broader economic and political transformation.

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