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Jonathan Ledgard

Jonathan Ledgard

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Jonathan Ledgard, a technologist and novelist, is Founder of the first Interspecies Money service.

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  1. Endangered Wildlife Should Pay for Its Own Protection
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    Endangered Wildlife Should Pay for Its Own Protection

    Dec 2, 2021 Jonathan Ledgard & Erik Meijaard explain how a digital wallet linked to animals' identity could improve their lives and chances of survival.

  2. Tech Jobs for Africa
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    Tech Jobs for Africa

    Jun 9, 2016 Bruce Krogh & Jonathan Ledgard make the case that technology firms need to hire on the continent if they are to succeed there.

  3. Drones for Development
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    Drones for Development

    Jun 5, 2015 Jonathan Ledgard & Scott MacMillan on the must-have gadget for remote parts of Africa, Asia, and South America.

  4. Afghanistan’s Drug-Friendly Environment

    Afghanistan’s Drug-Friendly Environment

    May 23, 2005 Jonathan Ledgard

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    What Causes Prosperity?

    Jeffrey Frankel shows how this year's Nobel Prize-winning economists tackled a once-insoluble problem.
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    Ukraine’s Post-Colonial Future

    Michael Ignatieff believes that what is at stake in the war with Russia is the fate of the last European imperialism.
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    Donald Trump’s Tariffs Would Hurt US Workers and Businesses

    Maurice Obstfeld shows why targeting an overall reduction in imports would reduce America’s real wages and national income.
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    Africa’s Green Future Starts with Debt Relief

    Bogolo Kenewendo & Patrick Njoroge propose large-scale relief to ensure that the continent’s countries can invest in climate action.
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    Diane Coyle on economic progress, tech monopolies, artificial intelligence, and more

    Diane Coyle advocates a new public philosophy that rejects viewing “government” and “market” as opposites, explains why time-use data must shape technological development, warns that policymakers are devising AI regulation in a thick conceptual fog, and more.
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    A New Paradigm for Standing Forests

    Ajay Banga, et al.

    While forest carbon markets have created new revenue streams, they usually reward only those countries, communities, or project developers who are focused on reducing their emissions from deforestation. Something more is needed to tie financial rewards to forests that aren’t under immediate threat.

    present a new mechanism to generate financial returns for countries that prevent deforestation.
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    Working-Class Antiheroes

    Ngaire Woods advocates using domestic labor legislation that supports unionization – not tariffs – to protect workers.
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    Toward a Fifth World Order

    Gordon Brown & Mohamed A. El-Erian

    Historically, massive revisions to the international system have come about only after a complete breakdown of the previous order. With today's global institutions sorely in need of reform, can the transition to a new order be achieved without incurring the costs and pain that such a breakdown would entail?

    explain why multilateral institutions urgently need to be reformed, and why the G20 is the right forum for it.
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    US Tariffs Will Not Bring Back Jobs from China

    Michael R. Strain decries both parties’ reluctance to prepare Americans for the employment opportunities of today and tomorrow.

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