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319 commentaries, Updated on 13 May 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. Rachel Ruto Clean Cooking Advances Women’s Empowerment
  2. Anne O. Krueger The Geopolitics of Africa’s Debt Crisis
  3. Jayati Ghosh The Key to Transforming African Health
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55 commentaries, Updated on 11 May 2024

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

  1. Slavoj Žižek Protests of Despair
  2. Shlomo Ben-Ami The Unbearable Lightness of Anti-Zionism
  3. Peter Singer When Is Criticism of Israel Anti-Semitic?
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31 commentaries, Updated on 14 May 2024

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

  1. Alberto Alemanno Europe’s Non-European Elections
  2. Adekeye Adebajo Mandela’s Heirs Face Their Biggest Election Test
  3. Gaurav Dalmia What Explains the BJP’s Rise?
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129 commentaries, Updated on 14 May 2024

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

  1. Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak, et al. A Turning Point for Clean Cooking
  2. Rachel Ruto Clean Cooking Advances Women’s Empowerment
  3. Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir How to Close the Gender Wage Gap
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32 commentaries, Updated on 10 May 2024

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

  1. Agustín Carstens, et al. The Rise of the Finternet
  2. Mariana Mazzucato, et al. Central Banks in a Cashless World
  3. Paolo Tasca The Struggle for Currency Supremacy
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90 commentaries, Updated on 22 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. Justina Nixon-Saintil AI Holds the Key to Resilient Cities
  2. Iván Duque Márquez How Guyana Became Latin America’s Leading Development Lab
  3. Laurence Tubiana Taxing Polluters Is the Key to Climate Justice
Putin's War on Ukraine

433 commentaries, Updated on 6 May 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. Ian Bremmer Will the Renewed US Support for Ukraine Be Enough?
  2. Chris Patten The West Must Not Let Putin Win
  3. Carl Bildt Trump Is Putin’s Only Hope Now
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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47 commentaries, Updated on 9 May 2024

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

  1. Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir How to Close the Gender Wage Gap
  2. David Alton, et al. Who Should Decide If It’s Genocide?
  3. Graça Machel The World’s Moral Failure in Gaza
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86 commentaries, Updated on 24 Apr 2024

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

  1. Peter G. Kirchschläger AI Needs UN Oversight
  2. Daron Acemoglu, et al. History Already Tells Us the Future of AI
  3. Justina Nixon-Saintil AI Holds the Key to Resilient Cities
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215 commentaries, Updated on 8 May 2024

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

  1. Dalia Marin The Zero-Sum Logic Fueling the Rise of Germany’s Far Right
  2. Pranab Bardhan The Popular Decimation of India’s Democracy
  3. Joseph E. Stiglitz Global Elections in the Shadow of Neoliberalism
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134 commentaries, Updated on 2 May 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. Jodie Ginsberg Our Freedoms Depend on Press Freedom
  2. Carsten Brosda Must Democratizing the Media Be Bad for Democracy?
  3. Anya Schiffrin, et al. Quality Journalism Is More Important than Ever
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    The “Billions to Trillions” Charade

    Jayati Ghosh explains why using development banks' resources to incentivize private-sector finance is unlikely to succeed.
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    Leveraging Islamic Finance for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure

    Muhammad Al Jasser shows how a hybrid financing model could help fund desperately needed projects in the developing world.
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    Adekeye Adebajo on the Non-Aligned Movement, United Nations peacekeeping, African institution-building, and more

    Adekeye Adebajo argues that Israel’s war in Gaza is accelerating the trend toward global apartheid, highlights the strengths and weaknesses of United Nations peacekeeping missions, criticizes the militarization of US engagement with Africa, and more.
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    Europe’s Non-European Elections

    Alberto Alemanno highlights structural flaws that impede the European Union’s ability to address its current and future challenges.
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    A Turning Point for Clean Cooking

    Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak & Joseph Nganga

    The models are in place to achieve clean cooking for all, which would have enormous benefits for the climate, health, and gender equality. Now rich-country governments, the private sector, and international organizations must agree to provide the necessary funding at this week’s IEA Summit on Clean Cooking in Africa.

    urge global leaders to provide the financing to end a practice with dire effects for health and the climate.
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    Why the US Can’t Win the Trade War With China – and Shouldn’t Try

    Qiyuan Xu argues that high capital outflows – largely a result of US policy – have resulted in an undervalued renminbi.
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    The Dilemmas of the Dollar

    Barry Eichengreen

    The dollar's strength, particularly against major Asian currencies, has triggered a wave of skittishness in financial markets. Can anything be done to stem the greenback's rise, and even if something can be done, should it?

    asks whether anything can or should be done about the greenback's strength, especially against Asian currencies.
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    Clean Cooking Advances Women’s Empowerment

    Rachel Ruto outlines a gender-based strategy for improving energy access and reducing air pollution in Africa.
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    There Can Be No Business as Usual for European Industry

    Judith Kirton-Darling urges EU leaders to make a renewed Green Deal, backed by competitiveness-bolstering initiatives, a top priority.

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