While carbon pricing and industrial policies may have enabled policymakers in the United States and Europe to avoid difficult political choices, we cannot rely on these tools to achieve crucial climate goals. Climate policies must move away from focusing on green taxes and subsidies and enter the age of politics.
explains why achieving climate goals requires a broader combination of sector-specific policy instruments.
The long-standing economic consensus that interest rates would remain low indefinitely, making debt cost-free, is no longer tenable. Even if inflation declines, soaring debt levels, deglobalization, and populist pressures will keep rates higher for the next decade than they were in the decade following the 2008 financial crisis.
thinks that policymakers and economists must reassess their beliefs in light of current market realities.
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所有国家,不论富裕还是贫穷,都应该保证基本医疗得到普遍覆盖,包括安全分娩、营养保证、牛痘接种、疟疾控制和临床服务。每年,有将近900万儿童因为可防可治的疾病而夭折,还有将近40万妇女因为怀孕期间的病症而死亡。
这些死亡病例基本上全部发生在世界上最贫穷的国家。防止这些病例发生不仅可以减少痛苦,而且可以促进贫困和动荡社会的经济繁荣。
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