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.
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悉尼——曾几何时的东南亚第一富国缅甸,今天却陷入了深深的贫困之中。军事统治下近50年的经济管理不善摧毁了缅甸的经济,现在这个国家唯一能在国际上名列前茅的是最为猖獗的腐败、最糟糕的医疗体系和用于教育的开支最低——这些“荣誉”令人悲哀地展示了缅甸人民所遭受的深重苦难。
但过去几年来,缅甸也作为东南亚一个重要的能源生产国开始崛起。多亏有近海海域的大型再生天然气田,缅甸现在可以挣到大笔的外汇收入。
目前,这些收入中的绝大部分(每年10-15亿美元,具体数额取决于天然气的价格波动)来自泰国。来自缅甸的天然气从马达班湾朝着海岸方向输送,在曼谷电力供应中所占的份额约为20%。
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