Antara Haldar
advocates a radical rethink of development, explains what went right at the recent AI Safety Summit, highlights the economics discipline’s shortcomings, and more.
The prevailing narrative that frames Israel as a colonial power suppressing Palestinians’ struggle for statehood grossly oversimplifies a complicated conflict and inadvertently vindicates the region’s most oppressive regimes. Achieving a durable, lasting peace requires moving beyond such facile analogies.
rejects the facile moralism of those who view the ongoing war through the narrow lens of decolonization.
The far-right populist Geert Wilders’ election victory in the Netherlands reflects the same sentiment that powered Brexit and Donald Trump’s candidacy in 2016. But such outcomes could not happen without the cynicism displayed over the past few decades by traditional conservative parties.
shows what Geert Wilders has in common with other ultra-nationalist politicians, past and present.
发自普林斯顿——德里宣传本月G20峰会的众多大型广告立牌背后其实都是贫民窟,而居住在那里的人们已经失去了生计。他们的路边摊和商店都被拆除以免玷污印度总理纳伦德拉·莫迪(Narendra Modi)精心打造的印度崛起形象。
而作为“国家品牌推广和美化”工作的一部分,印度的GDP统计数据也得到了展示。今年第二季度年化增长率达7.8%的印度似乎成为了全世界增长最快的主要经济体。但广告牌之下同样是许多挣扎求生的民众。事实上印度的经济增长速度很低,不平等现象日益加剧,就业岗位稀缺的问题依然严重。
但那些为G20峰会而宣扬印度最新GDP数据的广告牌上出现了一行神秘的“差异”字样。这一差异通常是国民经济核算中一个无伤大雅的报告惯例,是国内收入(通过生产商品和服务赚取的收入)与支出(居民和外国人购买这些商品和服务时支付的费用)之间的差额。原则上支出应等于所得收入,因为生产者只有在他人购买其产出时才能获得收入,但实际上各地的国民经济核算对收入和支出的估算都不尽相同,因为它们所依据的数据并不完善。
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