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Masood Ahmed, a former senior official at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, is President of the Center for Global Development.

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  1. Saving Afghanistan Despite the Taliban
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    Saving Afghanistan Despite the Taliban

    Dec 8, 2021 Masood Ahmed urges world leaders to address the question of how to approach the country, which now faces mass starvation.

  2. The G20's Pandemic Wake-Up Call
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    The G20's Pandemic Wake-Up Call

    Oct 25, 2021 Masood Ahmed urges world leaders to adopt more ambitious measures to tackle global health crises.

  3. The COVID Middle-Income Trap
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    The COVID Middle-Income Trap

    Sep 1, 2020 Masood Ahmed & Mauricio Cárdenas urge the international community to help countries that account for 75% of the world’s population.

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    Putin’s Brezhnev Moment

    Aryeh Neier draws parallels between the regime’s ongoing crackdown on civil society and late Soviet repression.
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    Utopia or Bust

    J. Bradford DeLong considers our options for both expanding and effectively slicing the proverbial economic pie.
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    Germany’s Reckoning

    Helmut K. Anheier

    Germany is now grappling with a host of difficult questions about its place in the world, the nature of its politics, and its most cherished values. For a pacifist society in a new age of conflict and war, everything must change if things are to remain the same.

     traces the contours of the country's debate, triggered by the Ukraine war, about its strategic future.
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    Preempting a Generative AI Monopoly

    Diane Coyle urges policymakers to take steps to counter the anti-competitive implications of a rapidly emerging market.
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    Japan’s Strategic Imperative

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr. sees the country doubling down on its best option for ensuring national security and regional stability.
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    China’s Savings Conundrum

    Zhang Jun explains why – and how – the country must stimulate household consumption to achieve a robust recovery.
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    The Flight of the Inflation Hawks

    Though the US Federal Reserve’s first interest-rate hike of 2023 is smaller than those that preceded it, policymakers have signaled that more increases are on the way, despite slowing price growth. But there is good reason to doubt the utility – and fear the consequences – of continued rate hikes, on both sides of the Atlantic.

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    How to Transform African Agriculture

    Safia Boly & Omid Kassiri identify four principles that could help governments across the continent boost food security.
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    Making Ukrainian Victory Possible

    Josep Borrell explains why continued military support and other forms of assistance remain critical.

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