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Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown

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Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom, is United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and Chair of the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity. He chairs the Advisory Board of the Catalyst Foundation.

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  1. velasco114_RODRIGO ARANGUAAFP via Getty Images_chileelection Rodrigo Arangua/AFP via Getty Images

    Chile’s Constitutional Revolution

    Andrés Velasco

    The 155 members of Chile’s new constitutional convention must cast aside everything they stand for in order to do their job well. A generation reared on direct participatory politics – whether via Twitter, on university campuses, or in the streets – now must build a representative democracy

     asks whether the country’s newly elected constituent assembly is up to the task.
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    A Global Incentive to Reduce Emissions

    Raghuram G. Rajan

    Proposals for coordinated climate action at the global level all too easily run into free-rider and fairness problems, leaving many of the most popular policy proposals dead on arrival. But a simple framework that gives all countries similar incentives would overcome these problems.

     proposes an international framework for ensuring fairness and full participation in combating climate change.
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