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Kailash Satyarthi

Kailash Satyarthi

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Kailash Satyarthi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is the founder of Laureates and Leaders for Children, Honorary President of the Global March Against Child Labor, and the founder of Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save Childhood Movement).

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  1. The Appalling Increase in Child Labor
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    The Appalling Increase in Child Labor

    Jun 29, 2021 Kailash Satyarthi urges rich countries to strengthen social protection for the world's most marginalized children.

  2. Protecting Refugee Children During the Pandemic
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    Protecting Refugee Children During the Pandemic

    Jul 16, 2020 Kailash Satyarthi & Prince Ali bin Hussein urge governments to channel more COVID-19 rescue funds toward some of the world's most vulnerable people.

  3. What Real Pandemic Aid Would Look Like
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    What Real Pandemic Aid Would Look Like

    May 6, 2020 Kailash Satyarthi calls for 20% of the funds committed to mitigating the COVID-19 crisis to go to the poorest 20% of humanity.

  4. Combating Child Labor in Global Supply Chains
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    Combating Child Labor in Global Supply Chains

    Jan 23, 2020 Kailash Satyarthi explains what governments, corporations, and civil society can do to end the practice once and for all.

  5. Protecting Children Is the Key to Sustainability
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    Protecting Children Is the Key to Sustainability

    Sep 23, 2019 Kailash Satyarthi urges world leaders to refocus on the child-centered goals in the United Nations' 2030 Agenda.

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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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