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    A New Paradigm for Standing Forests

    Ajay Banga, et al.

    While forest carbon markets have created new revenue streams, they usually reward only those countries, communities, or project developers who are focused on reducing their emissions from deforestation. Something more is needed to tie financial rewards to forests that aren’t under immediate threat.

     present a new mechanism to generate financial returns for countries that prevent deforestation.
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    Toward a Fifth World Order

    Gordon Brown & Mohamed A. El-Erian

    Historically, massive revisions to the international system have come about only after a complete breakdown of the previous order. With today's global institutions sorely in need of reform, can the transition to a new order be achieved without incurring the costs and pain that such a breakdown would entail?

     explain why multilateral institutions urgently need to be reformed, and why the G20 is the right forum for it.
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    Harris Is the Freedom Candidate

    Joseph E. Stiglitz sees a common thread running through the Democratic nominee’s economic agenda.
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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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    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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    What Causes Prosperity?

    Jeffrey Frankel shows how this year's Nobel Prize-winning economists tackled a once-insoluble problem.
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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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    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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    The Brutes’ New Suits

    James Livingston asks why so many observers now believe that institutions central to modern economies are running a con game.
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  1. What Causes Prosperity?
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    What Causes Prosperity?

    Oct 22, 2024 Jeffrey Frankel shows how this year's Nobel Prize-winning economists tackled a once-insoluble problem.

  2. Ukraine’s Post-Colonial Future
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    Ukraine’s Post-Colonial Future

    Oct 22, 2024 Michael Ignatieff believes that what is at stake in the war with Russia is the fate of the last European imperialism.

  3. Donald Trump’s Tariffs Would Hurt US Workers and Businesses
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    Donald Trump’s Tariffs Would Hurt US Workers and Businesses

    Oct 22, 2024 Maurice Obstfeld shows why targeting an overall reduction in imports would reduce America’s real wages and national income.

  4. Africa’s Green Future Starts with Debt Relief
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    Africa’s Green Future Starts with Debt Relief

    Oct 22, 2024 Bogolo Kenewendo & Patrick Njoroge propose large-scale relief to ensure that the continent’s countries can invest in climate action.

  5. Diane Coyle on economic progress, tech monopolies, artificial intelligence, and more
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    Diane Coyle on economic progress, tech monopolies, artificial intelligence, and more

    Oct 22, 2024 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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    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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    Toward a Fifth World Order

    Gordon Brown & Mohamed A. El-Erian

    Historically, massive revisions to the international system have come about only after a complete breakdown of the previous order. With today's global institutions sorely in need of reform, can the transition to a new order be achieved without incurring the costs and pain that such a breakdown would entail?

     explain why multilateral institutions urgently need to be reformed, and why the G20 is the right forum for it.
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    The Brutes’ New Suits

    James Livingston asks why so many observers now believe that institutions central to modern economies are running a con game.
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    America’s Broken Constitution

    Nicholas Reed Langen sees the country’s politicized Supreme Court as the biggest obstacle to addressing many other problems.
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    Marietje Schaake on our tech overlords, antitrust, data protection, and more

    Marietje Schaake warns that Big Tech’s outsize influence threatens democracy, suggests what Western leaders can learn from Chinese technology governance, urges governments to use public procurement to influence the trajectory of digital technology, and more.
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    Making Sense of Russia’s War Economy

    Konstantin Sonin explains the apparent resilience of growth and employment in the face of increasingly tight sanctions.

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    Investments in Nature Will Decide Our Future

    Ambroise Fayolle points out that biodiversity loss and ecosystem damage jeopardize all other global development goals.
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    The Promise and Peril of Water Markets

    Eduardo Araral shows what can go wrong when water rights become tradable, and explains what to do about it.
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    The Key That Unlocks Cleantech Financing in Europe

    Craig Douglas urges EU leaders to borrow against future Emissions Trading System revenues to finance higher investment now.

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  2. Bogolo Kenewendo, et al. Africa’s Green Future Starts with Debt Relief
  3. Ngaire Woods Working-Class Antiheroes
  4. Michael R. Strain US Tariffs Will Not Bring Back Jobs from China

  1. Joseph E. Stiglitz Harris Is the Freedom Candidate
  2. Marci Shore Shifting the Paradigm in Ukraine
  3. Brahma Chellaney The BRICS Effect
  4. Robert Skidelsky The Roots of Europe’s Immigration Problem

  1. Mariana Chilton The Destructive Legacy of Mass Starvation
  2. Gordon Brown Investing in the WHO Will Yield Outsize Returns
  3. Gelsomina Vigliotti, et al. Financing Food Security Will Yield High Returns
  4. Isabella M. Weber, et al. Building a Buffer Against Food-Price Shocks

  1. Ajay Banga, et al. A New Paradigm for Standing Forests
  2. Ambroise Fayolle Investments in Nature Will Decide Our Future
  3. Eduardo Araral The Promise and Peril of Water Markets
  4. Craig Douglas The Key That Unlocks Cleantech Financing in Europe

  1. Katharina Pistor Outsourcing Our Future to For-Profit AI
  2. Ian Bremmer, et al. AI Is a Rare Bright Spot for Global Governance
  3. Philippe Aghion, et al. Can Europe Create an Innovation Economy?
  4. Carme Artigas, et al. Unlocking AI’s Potential for All

  1. Katrin Kivi The Case for Press Freedom Just Got Stronger
  2. Justina Nixon-Saintil Unlocking AI-Powered Learning
  3. John J. Donohue, et al. The Crisis of America’s Public Defenders
  4. Shashi Tharoor Overworked India

Africa’s economic rise is a world-changing development, but the sources of its emerging strength – and lingering weaknesses – are little understood. W…

  1. Bogolo Kenewendo, et al. Africa’s Green Future Starts with Debt Relief
  2. Kenneth Rogoff Rethinking Foreign Funding for Africa
  3. Agnes Kalibata, et al. Africa’s Food Security Depends on Adaptive Crops

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

As the COVID-19 crisis escalates, PS commentators assess its implications for the economy, propose policy responses, and consider what might – and sho…

  1. Gro Harlem Brundtland Recommitting to Pandemic Preparedness
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  3. Tom Achoki, et al. Preparing Now for the Next Disease X