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338 commentaries, Updated on 23 Oct 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. Kingsley Moghalu Fixing Africa’s Governance Crisis Must Come First
  2. Bogolo Kenewendo, et al. Africa’s Green Future Starts with Debt Relief
  3. Kenneth Rogoff Rethinking Foreign Funding for Africa
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72 commentaries, Updated on 23 Oct 2024

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

  1. Carl Bildt An Israeli Victory May Not Bring Peace
  2. Mariana Chilton The Destructive Legacy of Mass Starvation
  3. Dennis Ross Capitalizing on the Weakening of Hamas and Hezbollah
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126 commentaries, Updated on 16 Oct 2024

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

  1. Shashi Tharoor Why Must Indians Vote So Often?
  2. Guillermo Ortiz Can Claudia Sheinbaum Escape AMLO’s Shadow?
  3. Jorge G. Castañeda The Cuban Contingent Protecting Maduro
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141 commentaries, Updated on 15 Oct 2024

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

  1. Mariana Chilton The Destructive Legacy of Mass Starvation
  2. Laura Tyson Abortion and Reproductive Rights Are Economic Issues
  3. Jess Ayers, et al. Helping Women Adapt to Extreme Heat Helps Us All
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35 commentaries, Updated on 4 Sep 2024

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

  1. Christian Catalini, et al. Crypto Policy Needs to Empower Builders, Not Speculators
  2. Elisabeth Carpenter, et al. Why Most Firms Fail to Capitalize on New Technologies
  3. Jordan Bleicher, et al. The Geopolitical Imperative to Upgrade the Dollar
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95 commentaries, Updated on 30 Sep 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. Mette Frederiksen, et al. How to Mobilize Private Climate Finance
  2. Nadia Calviño, et al. Small-Island Solidarity and Climate Common Sense
  3. Laura Carvalho The Dead Hand of Neoliberalism Is Blocking Green Growth
Putin's War on Ukraine

468 commentaries, Updated on 18 Oct 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. Marci Shore Shifting the Paradigm in Ukraine
  2. Ana Palacio Ukraine Needs Security Guarantees
  3. Joseph S. Nye, Jr. What Would Victory in Ukraine Look Like?
The Light Bulb

61 commentaries, Updated on 5 Aug 2024

In The New Enlightenment, Project Syndicate, in partnership with The New Institute, brings together leading experts, academics, practitioners, and pol…

  1. Mariana Mazzucato Collective Intelligence and the Common Good
  2. James Livingston Two Cheers for Identity Politics
  3. Mariana Mazzucato The Economics of Health for All
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55 commentaries, Updated on 15 Oct 2024

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

  1. Mariana Chilton The Destructive Legacy of Mass Starvation
  2. John J. Donohue, et al. The Crisis of America’s Public Defenders
  3. Yi Fuxian China Shuts Down Its International-Adoption Machine
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116 commentaries, Updated on 17 Oct 2024

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

  1. Katharina Pistor Outsourcing Our Future to For-Profit AI
  2. Justina Nixon-Saintil Unlocking AI-Powered Learning
  3. Ian Bremmer, et al. AI Is a Rare Bright Spot for Global Governance
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260 commentaries, Updated on 16 Oct 2024

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

  1. Tom Ginsburg, et al. Why Another Trump Term Would Be Worse Than the First
  2. Nicholas Reed Langen America’s Broken Constitution
  3. Jorge G. Castañeda The Cuban Contingent Protecting Maduro
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138 commentaries, Updated on 16 Oct 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. Katrin Kivi The Case for Press Freedom Just Got Stronger
  2. Geoff Mulgan The Right to Truth
  3. Nishant Lalwani, et al. As Disinformation Thrives, Democracy Dies
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    What the G20 Can Do for Green Growth

    Mariana Mazzucato & Vera Songwe explain how the world’s premier economic grouping can keep global climate targets on track.
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    An Israeli Victory May Not Bring Peace

    Carl Bildt sees the aftermath of the 1967 Six-Day War as a cautionary tale for the current conflict.
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    Fixing Africa’s Governance Crisis Must Come First

    Kingsley Moghalu foresees home-grown educational institutions equipping the continent’s leaders with public-policy skills.
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    The Key to Unlocking the Benefits of Trade

    Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala & Makhtar Diop

    The finance underpinning supply chains is crucial, but too many small businesses in emerging and developing economies cannot access it, cutting them off from the benefits of global trade. Plucking this relatively low-hanging fruit can drive progress toward many development goals at once.

    show how a lack of supply-chain finance keeps many businesses and economies on the sidelines.
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    What Causes Prosperity?

    Jeffrey Frankel shows how this year's Nobel Prize-winning economists tackled a once-insoluble problem.
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    Ukraine’s Post-Colonial Future

    Michael Ignatieff believes that what is at stake in the war with Russia is the fate of the last European imperialism.
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    Donald Trump’s Tariffs Would Hurt US Workers and Businesses

    Maurice Obstfeld shows why targeting an overall reduction in imports would reduce America’s real wages and national income.
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    Africa’s Green Future Starts with Debt Relief

    Bogolo Kenewendo & Patrick Njoroge propose large-scale relief to ensure that the continent’s countries can invest in climate action.
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    Diane Coyle on economic progress, tech monopolies, artificial intelligence, and more

    Diane Coyle advocates a new public philosophy that rejects viewing “government” and “market” as opposites, explains why time-use data must shape technological development, warns that policymakers are devising AI regulation in a thick conceptual fog, and more.

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