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Alan Donnelly

Alan Donnelly

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Alan Donnelly, a former member of the European Parliament, is Founder and Convenor of the G20 Health and Development Partnership.

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  1. The World Is Still Failing at Pandemic Preparedness and Response
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    The World Is Still Failing at Pandemic Preparedness and Response

    Nov 18, 2022 Mariana Mazzucato & Alan Donnelly worry that health investment is being crowded out despite its centrality to all other development goals.

  2. How the G7 Could Help the Debt-Distressed
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    How the G7 Could Help the Debt-Distressed

    Jun 23, 2022 Mariana Mazzucato & Alan Donnelly identify three tools that rich, influential countries could deploy immediately to assist poor countries.

  3. How to Design a Pandemic Preparedness and Response Fund
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    How to Design a Pandemic Preparedness and Response Fund

    Apr 20, 2022 Mariana Mazzucato & Alan Donnelly highlight four conditions that the G20's proposed financing vehicle must meet in order to succeed.

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    Here We Go Again?

    Fifteen years after the collapse of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers triggered a devastating global financial crisis, the banking system is in trouble again. Central bankers and financial regulators each seem to bear some of the blame for the recent tumult, but there is significant disagreement over how much – and what, if anything, can be done to avoid a deeper crisis.

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    The Coming Doom Loop

    Nouriel Roubini

    In the face of high and persistent inflation, recession risks, and now a looming insolvency crisis in the financial sector, central banks like the US Federal Reserve are facing a trilemma. Unable to fight inflation and provide liquidity support simultaneously, the only solution is a severe recession – and thus a broader debt crisis.

    warns that liquidity support will not be enough to prevent a deeper financial crisis and economic downturn.
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    Crises of Uncertainty

    Harold James fears the consequences of policymakers’ continual revision of economic and financial governance rules.
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    Destructive Decoupling

    Michael Spence

    Policymakers in both the United States and China seem to have fully accepted, and even embraced, the logic of economic decoupling. But what exactly will decoupling entail, and what will its consequences be?

    tallies the costs of the global economic fragmentation that the US-China rivalry has set in motion.
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    Xi Jinping’s Idea of World Order

    Mark Leonard explains China’s new strategy for appealing to developing countries and emerging economies.
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    Tyranny’s Propagandists Are Winning

    Maria Ressa & Nishant Lalwani urge funders and policymakers to commit significant funds to support public-interest journalism.
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    Dodgy Climate Finance

    Ricardo Hausmann argues that many assistance programs misrepresent the amount of aid being provided.
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    Tick TikTok Goes Globalization

    Kenneth Rogoff thinks efforts to restrict American users’ access to the app are hypocritical and counterproductive.
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    To Reconstruct Turkey, Rebuild Its Democracy

    Daron Acemoglu & Cihat Tokgöz think the country needs not just a new government but a broader economic and political transformation.

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