There is evidence from around the world that the liberty of women is under attack, including in proud democracies. Against this backdrop, the US Supreme Court’s elimination of the federal right to abortion is a particularly egregious offense against women.
notes that the Supreme Court’s elimination of the federal right to abortion accompanies rising gender violence.
Antara Haldar
highlights a potential institutional advantage of developing countries, shows how the hesitation to appeal to voters’ emotions is putting progressives at a disadvantage, and considers where the economics discipline is headed.
After a 9% decline in the second half of 2020, the broad dollar index – the real effective exchange rate as calculated by the Bank for International Settlements – has gone the other way, soaring by 12.3% from January 2021 through May 2022. And yet the deterioration of the US current-account balance has continued.
revisits his prediction in 2020 of a dollar crash and explains why he got it perfectly wrong.
里约热内卢—未来几年,城市面临灾难性的气候压力和冲击,你也许会认为,城市会急于实施缓解和适应的战略。然而,大多数城市居民只是模糊地意识到这些风险,因为他们所在城市的市长、管理者和市政厅并没有收集和分析正确类型的信息。
越来越多的政府采取了减少温室气体 (GHG) 排放的战略,世界各地的城市需要更好地收集和解释气候数据。超过 11,000 个城市签署了一项应对气候变化和实现清洁能源转型的 全球共约,也有许多城市准备先于全国同行实现净零排放。然而,几乎所有人都仍然缺乏衡量进展的基本工具。
缩小这一差距已是一个紧迫问题,因为气候变化已经在扰乱世界各地的城市。几乎每个大洲的城市都在遭受热浪、火灾、台风和飓风的蹂躏。沿海城市正遭受与海平面上升有关的严重洪灾的袭击。一些特大城市及其庞杂的周边地区正在被重新思考,例如印度尼西亚准备耗资340亿美元,到 2024 年将首都从雅加达迁至婆罗洲。
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