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Lee Howell

Lee Howell

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Lee Howell is a member of the Management Board of the World Economic Forum.

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  1. Boosting Resilience to COVID-19
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    Boosting Resilience to COVID-19

    Apr 1, 2020 Lee Howell shows how national and local leaders can embrace resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  2. Long Live Globalization
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    Long Live Globalization

    Jan 16, 2019 Lee Howell calls for the creation of a more resilient institutional architecture to account for four key developments.

  3. Looking Beyond Lehman
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    Looking Beyond Lehman

    Sep 17, 2018 Lee Howell calls for less obsessing over the business cycle and more attention to the effects of new technologies.

  4. The False Narrative of Realpolitik
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    The False Narrative of Realpolitik

    Oct 9, 2017 Lee Howell calls for a shared narrative of global cooperation in the face of a US-led emphasis on national sovereignty.

  5. Systems at Risk
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    Systems at Risk

    Jan 8, 2013 Lee Howell

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    In Praise of First-Past-the-Post

    Andrés Velasco explains why Britain’s electoral system is better than all the plausible alternatives.
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    Peacebuilding in the Middle East Requires Women

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Xanthe Scharff argue that negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians must no longer be the province of men.
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    Macron and Europe’s Centrists Are Out of Good Options

    Yanis Varoufakis shows that an intractable economic conundrum lies behind the current impasse in French politics.
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    Immigration Does Not Start at the US Border

    Carlos Alvarado-Quesada laments the failure of Republicans and Democrats alike to address the root causes of migration.
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    Will AI Kill Off Money?

    Jean-Pierre Landau considers some of the underappreciated implications of an economy run entirely by machines.
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    A Philosopher for Our Times

    Enrique Krauze shows that, given rising illiberalism, the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza is as relevant as ever.
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    A New Worldview for Troubled Times

    Dennis J. Snower proposes four principles to guide policymaking and global negotiations in the age of climate change.
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    Navigating Today’s Frothy Financial Markets

    Dambisa Moyo offers a basic framework for assessing the risk of new bubbles and their potential spillover effects.
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    An Arab Spring for Bangladesh?

    M. Niaz Asadullah argues that young protestors could help the country chart a democratic course and achieve sustainable growth.

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