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Ana Palacio

Ana Palacio

Writing for PS since 2011
167 commentaries

Ana Palacio, a former minister of foreign affairs of Spain and former senior vice president and general counsel of the World Bank Group, is a visiting lecturer at Georgetown University.

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  1. Europe’s Year of Fundamental Choices
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    Europe’s Year of Fundamental Choices

    Jan 15, 2025 Ana Palacio considers the complex array of internal and external challenges the European Union must confront in 2025.

  2. China’s New Social Contract
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    China’s New Social Contract

    Dec 17, 2024 Ana Palacio highlights a fundamental shift in priorities brought about by slowing growth and changing public expectations.

  3. COP29 Must Deliver the Goods
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    COP29 Must Deliver the Goods

    Nov 19, 2024 Ana Palacio hopes that geopolitical uncertainty will not thwart ambitious, credible climate-finance commitments.

  4. Ukraine Needs Security Guarantees
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    Ukraine Needs Security Guarantees

    Oct 9, 2024 Ana Palacio views NATO as the only institution that can credibly safeguard the country’s sovereignty in the long term.

  5. Conflict and Competitiveness in Europe
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    Conflict and Competitiveness in Europe

    Sep 16, 2024 Ana Palacio supports the EU reform agenda recently proposed by former Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi.

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    When Companies Fail to Learn, They Learn to Fail

    Ricardo Hausmann explains how the inability to identify and address knowledge gaps can doom even the most promising projects.
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    How to Make Carbon Pricing Work for Africa

    Rim Berahab & Otaviano Canuto argue that policies must be structured to facilitate, not obstruct, the continent’s shift to renewables.
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    Green Free Trade in a Protectionist Age

    Ma Jun envisions regional arrangements that facilitate the exchange of climate-friendly goods and services.
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    Egypt’s Economic Crisis May Not Be Over

    Adnan Mazarei urges the international community to push for long-overdue governance and economic reforms.
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    Climate Displacement Is Also a Health Crisis

    Jayasree K. Iyer proposes a four-pronged strategy to ensure that essential medicines reach vulnerable populations.
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    Europe in Trump’s Crosshairs

    Kenneth Rogoff

    US President Donald Trump’s return to the White House represents a grave threat to Europe’s security, economy, and clean-energy transition. The European Union’s top priority must be to find ways to reduce energy prices, even if it means recalibrating some of its green policies.

    urges EU policymakers not to allow the new US administration to distract them from key policy priorities.
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    The New Washington Consensus

    Katharina Pistor

    If a picture is worth a thousand words, the image of Big Tech founders and CEOs filling the front row at Donald Trump’s inauguration is a manifesto. We have just watched private business take over the US government in broad daylight, and history suggests that this won’t end well.

    sees no daylight remaining between US private business and the federal government.
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    Economic Development after the Washington Consensus

    Karim El Aynaoui & Hinh T. Dinh propose a new policy framework adapted to an era that has rendered the prevailing growth model obsolete.
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    Yi Fuxian on China's decision-making, economic prospects, demographic crisis, and more

    Yi Fuxian warns that China's government and mainstream analysts are still underestimating the severity of the country's demographic crisis, identifies some of the gravest policy mistakes Donald Trump's administration is at risk of making vis-a-vis China, explains why China’s middle class will never be strong enough to bring about a democratic transition, and more.

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