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Bertrand Badré

Bertrand Badré

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Bertrand BadrĂ©, a former managing director of the World Bank, is CEO and Founder of Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital and the author of Can Finance Save the World? (Berrett-Koehler, 2018).

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  1. How to Democratize AI
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    How to Democratize AI

    Feb 7, 2024 Bertrand Badré & Charles Gorintin propose an approach to the technology designed to ensure that its benefits are available to everyone.

  2. Gender Justice Is Climate Justice
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    Gender Justice Is Climate Justice

    Oct 3, 2023 Immaculate Atuhamize & Bertrand Badré explain why equal access to education and resources can help mitigate the effects of the current crisis.

  3. Changing the Culture at the World Bank
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    Changing the Culture at the World Bank

    Jul 12, 2023 Bertrand Badré & Peter Blair Henry outline several steps that its new leadership should take to inspire stakeholders' confidence.

  4. What the Paris Finance Summit Must Do
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    What the Paris Finance Summit Must Do

    Jun 16, 2023 Sébastien Treyer & Bertrand Badré see an opportunity to create the conditions for major global financial reforms in the near future.

  5. Setting the Standard for Climate Finance
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    Setting the Standard for Climate Finance

    Nov 2, 2022 Bertrand Badré & Jingdong Hua show how the international community can best help developing countries meet their clean-energy goals.

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    A Big Defeat for Big Tech

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Tech companies know that if there is an open, democratic debate about data security, consumers’ concerns about digital safeguards will win out. And while the industry's lobbyists tried to ensure that no such debate could ever occur, one of their more cynical moves has now been exposed and thwarted.

    details how the industry tried to slip extraordinary protections against regulation into US trade agreements.
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    Haiti’s Proud Boys

    Slavoj Žižek

    If we measure a failed state by the cracks in the edifice of its power, reflected in brewing ideological civil wars, deadlocked assemblies, and increasingly insecure public spaces, we must recognize that the United States is not so unlike Haiti. Both have given rise to violent gangs with political ambitions.

    warns that rich Western democracies are not immune to politically motivated gang violence.
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    Unity Is Europe’s Greatest Asset

    Connie Hedegaard emphasizes the importance of stability amid persistent economic and geopolitical crises.
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    The Truth About US Immigration

    Nancy Qian warns that overheated campaign-season rhetoric is dangerously polarizing and ultimately self-defeating.
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    The Zombification of Political Parties

    Jan-Werner Mueller argues that Donald Trump’s capture of the GOP’s organizational machinery recalls authoritarian tactics elsewhere.
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    The Economic Consequences of Legal Behavior

    Kaushik Basu highlights the potential benefits of emphasizing adherence to the spirit of laws, if not their letter.
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    For Nigeria’s Schools, Safety Must Come First

    Gordon Brown writes that the latest mass abduction of students underscores the dilemma facing parents throughout the country.
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    Give Women with Disabilities a Chance

    Nkechi S. Owoo explains what is needed to protect and empower one of the world’s most vulnerable demographic groups.
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    How Capitalism Became a Threat to Democracy

    Mordecai Kurz examines the economic policies and market dynamics that have ushered in America's Second Gilded Age.

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