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Davos 2015

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As the World Economic Forum convenes in Davos, much attention will be devoted to the usual suspects: Russia, China, the Middle East, and the eurozone. But other global risks – including protracted war, epidemics, inequality, and environmental disasters – have also come into view.

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  1. Facing Down Mental Illness
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    Facing Down Mental Illness

    Jan 28, 2015 Thomas Insel charts progress in combating one of the oldest and most widespread sources of human misery.

  2. Fanatics, Charlatans, and Economists
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    Fanatics, Charlatans, and Economists

    Jan 27, 2015 Jean-Marie Guéhenno traces today's extremism and terrorism to the post-Cold War eclipse of politics by market logic.

  3. Safe Driving for Fast Companies
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    Safe Driving for Fast Companies

    Jan 27, 2015 Estelle Metayer identifies two blind spots that can cause businesses to be run off the road.

  4. Emergency Education Now
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    Emergency Education Now

    Jan 27, 2015 Gordon Brown calls for the establishment of a permanent fund to keep millions of refugee children in school.

  5. LGBT at Work
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    LGBT at Work

    Jan 26, 2015 Beth Brooke-Marciniak urges companies to shift their cultural focus from "diversity" to "inclusiveness."

  6. Can China Avoid Deflation?
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    Can China Avoid Deflation?

    Jan 26, 2015 Yang Yao assesses Premier Li Keqiang's pledge in Davos to stop the Chinese economy's slide.

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    The Language of Political Control

    Robert Skidelsky views recent linguistic innovations as manipulative efforts to compel “correct” thought and perception.
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    Globalization vs. Democracy

    Kaushik Basu highlights the contradictions and vulnerabilities inherent in the current international order.
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    The West’s New Infrastructure Imperative

    Diane Coyle explains why a broader conception of the term could reflect a renewed interest in investing in the future.
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    An Iran-Israel War?

    Iran’s mass ballistic missile and drone attack on Israel last week raised anew the specter of a widening Middle East war that draws in Iran and its proxies, as well as Western countries like the United States. The urgent need to defuse tensions – starting by ending Israel’s war in Gaza and pursuing a lasting political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – is obvious, but can it be done?

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    What a Climate-Aligned IMF Would Look Like

    Mohamed Nasheed & Rakesh Mohan explain how the managing director can fully position the institution to help the most vulnerable countries.
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    The Key to Transforming African Health

    Jayati Ghosh highlights efforts to foster scientific innovation and drug manufacturing on the continent.
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    China’s Rebalancing Imperative

    Stephen S. Roach

    The most successful development stories almost always involve major shifts in the sources of economic growth, which in turn allow economies to reinvent themselves out of necessity or by design. In China, the interplay of mounting external pressures, lagging household consumption, and falling productivity will increasingly shape China’s policy choices in the years ahead.

     explains why the Chinese authorities should switch to a consumption- and productivity-led growth model.
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    From Welfare State to Safe State in Latin America

    Jorge G. Castañeda & Carlos Ominami

    Designing a progressive anti-violence strategy that delivers the safety for which a huge share of Latin Americans crave is perhaps the most difficult challenge facing many of the region’s governments. But it is also the most important.

     urge the region’s progressives to start treating security as an essential component of social protection.
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    The Urgency of Sovereign-Debt Restructuring

    José Antonio Ocampo highlights the need for a comprehensive mechanism to deliver relief to low- and middle-income countries.

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