A majority of developing countries are facing debt distress, and their financing problems are sure to grow worse as global financial conditions continue to tighten. The moment is quickly approaching when the world will have to decide between two futures for development finance.
see two options for addressing debt distress in developing countries now that financial conditions have soured.
Poor countries should not be significantly affected by the loss of Ukrainian agricultural products. While Russia’s war has undoubtedly caused real problems in global food markets, they are different and more complex than what most news coverage suggests.
thinks the headlines attributing shortages to Russia’s war are ignoring a raft of other factors.
An underground war is erupting in Ukraine's occupied cities, towns, and villages, as artillery duels between Ukrainian forces and Russia’s much larger army transform the Donbas into a wasteland.
As the war drags on, the history of armed resistance to Nazi occupation of Europe during World War II now reads like a prophecy of the partisan war under way.
draws a direct line from Europe's anti-Nazi underground armies of World War II to Ukraine's partisan war today.
After losing the Republican primary, and thus her US House seat, Liz Cheney announced the formation of a new political action committee and suggested that she might run for president, all part of her effort to keep Donald Trump out of the White House. She is channeling the oppositional zeal that political disillusion often fuels.
considers the implications of Liz Cheney’s primary loss for the GOP and American democracy.
正值欧盟成立50周年之际,许多欧洲人也与欧盟一道步入中年。他们也开始知道,潜在的人口变化将会让欧洲下一个五十年与上一个五十年大为不同。
欧盟第一个五十年的特征是人口增长以及工作年龄的人相对儿童和老人比例较高。战后“婴儿潮”一代人推动了持续经济增长的时期,这一时期加强了欧洲在世界上的地位并且带来了欧洲公民生活质量的显著提高。
而在另一方面,欧盟的下一个五十年中,婴儿潮一代人步入退休,缩减了劳动力数量,这些人还要担负老年人医疗和养老金需求的沉重负担。到2050年,百分之三十六的欧洲人将会年满60岁,而且,尽管预计寿命增加,持续的低出生率意味着欧洲大陆人口将在2020年开始萎缩。
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