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316 commentaries, Updated on 16 Apr 2024

Africa’s economic rise is a world-changing development, but the sources of its emerging strength – and lingering weaknesses – are little understood. W…

  1. Ishac Diwan, et al. Developing Countries’ Liquidity Crisis Is Not Over
  2. Peter Doyle Leaving Africa’s Colonial-Era Currency Will Be Hard, But May Be Wise
  3. Adekeye Adebajo Ending Congo’s Forever War
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47 commentaries, Updated on 16 Apr 2024

Project Syndicate commentaries on the conflict in Gaza following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel.

  1. Daoud Kuttab The Middle East Needs a Ceasefire Now
  2. Dennis Ross Israel Must End the Gaza War
  3. Slavoj Žižek No Barbarism Without Poetry
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21 commentaries, Updated on 11 Apr 2024

Project Syndicate commentaries on the issues and trends shaping the biggest global election year in history.

  1. Sławomir Sierakowski Beating Back Populists at the Grassroots
  2. Shashi Tharoor Does Pakistan Still Matter to India?
  3. Richard K. Sherwin Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s Twisted Fantasy
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125 commentaries, Updated on 27 Mar 2024

To celebrate International Women’s Day, Project Syndicate is highlighting a selection of insightful commentaries written by female contributors on iss…

  1. Jane Kabubo-Mariara Africa’s Prosperity Depends on Achieving Gender Equality
  2. Nkechi S. Owoo Give Women with Disabilities a Chance
  3. Rudo Kayombo The Big Push African Women Need to Escape Poverty
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30 commentaries, Updated on 29 Mar 2024

In Finance of the Future, Project Syndicate, with support from Circle, brings together leading experts, innovators, regulators, and more to examine th…

  1. Paolo Tasca The Struggle for Currency Supremacy
  2. Dante Alighieri Disparte America Must Lead on Crypto Regulation
  3. Cina Lawson, et al. A Global Cash-Transfer Fund Could End Extreme Poverty
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89 commentaries, Updated on 11 Apr 2024

As former Irish President Mary Robinson and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu pointed out nearly a decade ago, “climate change is a matter of ju…

  1. Iván Duque Márquez How Guyana Became Latin America’s Leading Development Lab
  2. Laurence Tubiana Taxing Polluters Is the Key to Climate Justice
  3. Joseph E. Stiglitz The Biden Administration vs. Climate Youth
Putin's War on Ukraine

428 commentaries, Updated on 12 Apr 2024

Russia has failed to achieve the quick victory in Ukraine for which it apparently hoped, but a prolonged war of attrition would amount to a different …

  1. Shlomo Ben-Ami Europe’s War Jitters
  2. Simon Johnson, et al. Russian Revisionism and the Sources of Western Weakness
  3. Paola Subacchi, et al. Financial Sanctions Need Global Governance
The Light Bulb

58 commentaries, Updated on 11 Mar 2024

In The New Enlightenment, Project Syndicate, in partnership with The New Institute, brings together leading experts, academics, practitioners, and pol…

  1. Mariana Mazzucato, et al. Governments Must Shape AI’s Future
  2. Bertrand Badré, et al. How to Democratize AI
  3. Mariana Mazzucato A Progressive Green Growth Narrative
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46 commentaries, Updated on 16 Apr 2024

Activists, campaigners, and other experts consider how to support freedom, justice, and human dignity globally.

  1. David Alton, et al. Who Should Decide If It’s Genocide?
  2. Graça Machel The World’s Moral Failure in Gaza
  3. Chris Patten China Tightens Its Grip on Hong Kong
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83 commentaries, Updated on 11 Apr 2024

PS commentators consider how to seize the opportunities and mitigate the risks created by artificial intelligence.

  1. Eric Posner The Future of Work in the AI Era
  2. Amar Bhidé The Boring Truth About AI
  3. Daron Acemoglu Are We Ready for AI Creative Destruction?
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208 commentaries, Updated on 10 Apr 2024

Project Syndicate commentaries on the growing threats to liberal democracy, open societies, and the rule of law around the world.

  1. Mu Sochua The Threat Posed by Cambodia’s New Strongman
  2. Richard K. Sherwin Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s Twisted Fantasy
  3. Sinan Ülgen Turkey’s Triumphant Opposition
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131 commentaries, Updated on 23 Feb 2024

Today’s media landscape is littered with landmines: open hostility from illiberal and autocratic regimes, mounting censorship in countries such as Hungary, Turkey,…

  1. Natalie Dunleavy Campbell, et al. The US Is Jeopardizing the Open Internet
  2. Mark Esposito, et al. The Threat of Persuasive AI
  3. Karina Montoya The Google Trial’s Dangerous Secrecy
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    The Middle East Needs a Ceasefire Now

    Daoud Kuttab explains why the latest escalation could lead to a truce instead of an all-out military showdown.
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    Overcoming the Development-Project Implementation Gap

    Jorge Moreira da Silva highlights ways to strengthen the International Development Association’s already-powerful impact.
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    Developing Countries’ Liquidity Crisis Is Not Over

    Ishac Diwan & Vera Songwe urge global policymakers to prevent mass insolvency and finance urgent climate projects.
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    America’s Manufacturing Renaissance Will Create Few Good Jobs

    Dani Rodrik

    Many countries’ recent experiences show that boosting manufacturing employment is like chasing a fast-receding target. Automation and skill-biased technology have made it extremely unlikely that manufacturing can be the labor-absorbing activity it once was, which means that the future of “good jobs” must be created in services.

    shows why policies to boost employment in the twenty-first century ultimately must focus on services.
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    Minxin Pei on China’s economy, surveillance state, repression of dissent, and more

    Minxin Pei doubts China’s government is willing to do what is needed to restore growth, describes the low-tech approaches taken by the country’s vast security apparatus, considers the Chinese social-credit system’s repressive potential, and more.
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    Who Should Decide If It’s Genocide?

    David Alton, et al. urge British policymakers to take a proactive approach to addressing mass-atrocity crimes.
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    The Bretton Woods Institutions We Need

    Joaquim Levy, et al. explain how the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank can rise to current global challenges.
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    The World Cannot Afford to Ignore the Poorest Countries

    Indermit Gill & M. Ayhan Kose warn that a growing gap between the world’s haves and have-nots will undercut global goals.
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    The World Is Still on Fire

    Lawrence H. Summers & N.K. Singh

    For the last several years, world leaders have made big promises and laid out bold plans to mitigate the climate crisis and help the neediest countries adapt. At this year's World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings, they must demonstrate that they can fulfill these promises, rather than simply touting new ones.

    think policymakers need to get four things right to shore up the credibility of the international system.

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