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Isabel Ortiz

Isabel Ortiz

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Isabel Ortiz, Director of the Global Social Justice Program at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, was Director of the International Labor Organization and UNICEF, and a senior official at the United Nations and the Asian Development Bank.

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    China’s Leaders Can’t Be Trusted

    Chris Patten

    Four examples of the Chinese leadership’s duplicity and mendacity demonstrate that the last thing the world should do is trust the Communist Party of China. If governments recognize this and act together, the sooner the Beijing bullies will have to behave better.

     offers four examples demonstrating why the world should repudiate President Xi Jinping’s regime.
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    How to Recover Green

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Now that governments have intervened in the market on an unprecedented scale, citizens have every right to demand that newly dependent sectors align themselves with long-term climate-policy goals. Policymakers already have the tools to make this happen, and doing so would accelerate economic recovery.

     explains what forward-looking governments could do to turn the COVID-19 crisis into an opportunity.
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