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    The COVID-19 pandemic has caused hunger to spike, highlighting the need for radical reforms of the global food system to ensure its long-term resilience. But many fear that the United Nations Food Systems Summit on September 23 will entrench the current inequitable status quo instead of delivering real change.

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    Where Has All the Money Gone?

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    Quantitative easing risks generating its own boom-and-bust cycles, and can thus be seen as an example of state-created financial instability. Governments must now abandon the fiction that central banks create money independently from government, and must themselves spend the money created at their behest.

     explains why a decade of quantitative easing by central banks has merely fueled financial instability.
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The Coming Food Fight

Featured in this Big Picture
  1. Sandrine Dixson-Declève Sandrine Dixson-Declève ,
  2. José Antonio Ocampo José Antonio Ocampo ,
  3. Felia Salim Felia Salim ,
  4. Gloria Abraham Peralta Gloria Abraham Peralta ,
  5. Hilal Elver Hilal Elver ,
  6. Barbara Unmüßig Barbara Unmüßig ,
  7. Simon Zadek Simon Zadek ,
  8. Agnes Kalibata Agnes Kalibata ,
  9. Kristina Skierka Kristina Skierka

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused hunger to spike, highlighting the need for radical reforms of the global food system to ensure its long-term resilience. But many fear that the United Nations Food Systems Summit on September 23 will entrench the current inequitable status quo instead of delivering real change.

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As Germany’s chancellor since 2005, Angela Merkel has been a pillar of the European and global order. But whoever succeeds her following the country’s September 26 federal election must also address massive structural challenges and widespread popular anxieties at home.

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While recent advances in artificial intelligence may not justify either excessive optimism or dystopian visions, the technology will significantly reshape economies and societies. But will geopolitical competition and a surfeit of hype hamper progress toward setting standards for this critical technology’s responsible development and use?

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