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V. Shankar

V. Shankar

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V. Shankar is Co-Founder and CEO of Gateway Partners, a private equity firm that invests in emerging markets.

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  1. What Developing Countries Need to Reach Net Zero
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    What Developing Countries Need to Reach Net Zero

    Oct 11, 2021 V. Shankar says that low- and middle-income countries need time, financial support, and capacity-building assistance.

  2. Africa’s Education Imperative
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    Africa’s Education Imperative

    Sep 8, 2014 V. Shankar describes how to provide Africans with the education, skills, and job opportunities they need.

  3. Africa’s Inclusive Growth Potential
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    Africa’s Inclusive Growth Potential

    Aug 1, 2014 V. Shankar describes the measures needed to make the most of the continent's many opportunities.

  4. The Changing Development Order
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    The Changing Development Order

    Sep 6, 2013 V. Shankar on how to mobilize the private sector for development.

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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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