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Steven J. Klees

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Steven J. Klees, an economist, is Professor of International Education Policy and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland. He is the author, most recently, of The Conscience of a Progressive. 

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  1. Financing Universal Education
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    Financing Universal Education

    Aug 3, 2017 Steven J. Klees proposes alternatives to market-fundamentalist approaches to international aid.

  2. The False Promise of Cost-Benefit Analysis
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    The False Promise of Cost-Benefit Analysis

    Jun 1, 2017 Steven J. Klees explains why technocrats' most important tool is all but useless for making sound policy choices.

  3. Pro-Growth is Not Pro-Poor
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    Pro-Growth is Not Pro-Poor

    Oct 9, 2015 Steven J. Klees makes the case that inequality can be addressed only through redistributive policies.

  4. Getting Universal Education Right
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    Getting Universal Education Right

    Sep 23, 2015 Steven J. Klees warns that the SDGs for education will not be met if more funding is not made available.

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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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