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David Malpass

David Malpass

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David Malpass is President of the World Bank Group.

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    Can Humanity Handle the Heat?

    The record-high temperatures across the northern hemisphere this summer offer yet another preview of what lies in store as global warming continues. With the need to tackle extreme heat becoming ever more urgent, especially in poorer countries, we asked PS commentators whether and how the world can cope.

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    Argentina’s Never-Ending Tragic Farce

    Andrés Velasco

    Argentine voters are no strangers to financial turmoil, but they keep electing politicians who run large fiscal deficits and finance them by printing pesos. Could it be that the only way for politicians to show they want to save the economy is to destroy it first?

     argues that the country’s latest bout of financial turmoil is following a familiar historical pattern.

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