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  1. slaughter107_NurPhotoGettyImages_maternal_health_hospital Nur Photo/Getty Images
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    How to End the Scourge of Maternal Mortality

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Mary-Ann Etiebet propose a global impact hub that could develop measurable milestones and scale up effective solutions.
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    Interspecies Money Is Here

    Nils Gilman & Mutesi Rusagara look beyond the first ever payments to animals and see a new model for human-wildlife economic collaboration.
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    Project Syndicate – in partnership with the Center for Sustainable Development at Brookings and The Rockefeller Foundation – is offering a global platform for experts with innovative, substantive proposals to tackle specific problems relating to the Sustainable Development Goals. With just over half a decade to go before the internationally agreed deadline, the situation demands solutions that can be implemented and scaled up quickly.

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    Rebooting the Sustainable Development Goals

    John W. McArthur & Zia Khan urge political, business, and civil-society leaders to foster the big ideas needed to meet the 2030 targets.
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    A Global Cash-Transfer Fund Could End Extreme Poverty

    Cina Lawson & Rory Stewart show that the conditions are ripe for deploying lump-sum payments to the world’s poorest people.

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  1. sirleaf10_ SIMON MAINAAFP via Getty Images_Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images
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    Three Cheers for Namibia’s First Female President

    Ellen Johnson Sirleaf explains why Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah’s electoral victory is a defining moment for women’s leadership in Africa.
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    Trump’s Tariffs Will Backfire

    Takatoshi Ito warns that the US president-elect's plans will increase America's trade deficit and alienate its allies.
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    Trump’s Victory Over the Rule of Law

    Antara Haldar considers whether a defining component of American democracy has been lost for good.
  4. kupchan15_RAMI AL SAYEDAFP via Getty Images_syria Rami al-Sayed AFP via Getty Images
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    Rebuilding Syria After Assad

    Charles A. Kupchan & Sinan Ülgen

    Bashar al-Assad’s fall from power has created an opportunity for the political and economic reconstruction of a key Arab state. But the record of efforts to stabilize post-conflict societies in the Middle East is littered with failure, and the next few months will most likely determine Syria's political trajectory.

     say that Syrians themselves must do the hard work, but multilateral assistance has an important role to play.
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    Trump’s Pro-Corporate Populism Cannot Last

    Eric Posner

    The US president-elect has vowed to round up illegal immigrants and raise tariffs, but he will probably fail to reinvigorate the economy for the masses, who will watch the rich get richer on crypto and AI. America has been here before, and if Trump doesn’t turn on the business class and lay the blame at its feet, someone else will.

     thinks the next president will be forced to choose between big business and the forgotten man.
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    What Will Happen to China’s Economy in 2025?

    Huang Yiping identifies three key challenges that the government must overcome to achieve 5% growth.
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    Did COP29 Fail Women?

    María Fernanda Espinosa is unimpressed by the latest UN Climate Change Conference's outcomes for gender-responsive finance.
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    Why Are So Many Indians Fleeing to America?

    Shashi Tharoor points out that even middle-class families increasingly see no future in their home country.
  9. eichengreen198_JENS SCHLUETERAFP via Getty Images_volkswagen Jens Schlueter/AFP via Getty Images
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    The Crisis that Germany Needs

    Barry Eichengreen argues that the country's economic woes reflect decades-old institutions that are no longer fit for purpose.

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