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Erik Berglöf

Erik Berglöf

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Erik Berglöf is Chief Economist of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. 

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  1. Africa’s Path to Green Prosperity
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    Africa’s Path to Green Prosperity

    Sep 13, 2024 Erik Berglöf highlights the potential that a young population and abundant renewable-energy resources represent.

  2. Building Resilience in the Developing World
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    Building Resilience in the Developing World

    May 28, 2024 Erik Berglöf argues for additional financing mechanisms to protect low-income economies against proliferating shocks.

  3. Nature as Infrastructure
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    Nature as Infrastructure

    Dec 4, 2023 Erik Berglöf urges leaders to assess what natural landscapes can deliver before considering “grey” solutions.

  4. The Promise and Peril of Decarbonization
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    The Promise and Peril of Decarbonization

    Oct 6, 2023 Erik Berglöf outlines steps that governments and multilateral lenders could take to reach net-zero emissions.

  5. Fostering Climate Agency Where It Counts
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    Fostering Climate Agency Where It Counts

    Jun 13, 2023 Rania Al-Mashat & Erik Berglöf explain how governments can mobilize public and private capital to achieve sustainability goals.

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    The US Economy’s Trust Deficit

    Michael Spence considers the causes and consequences of Americans’ declining faith in media and government.
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    Norway Is a Ukraine War Profiteer

    Håvard Halland & Knut Anton Mork argue that the country should give its windfall gains from gas exports to those on the front lines.
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    Navigating the Risks of Digital Public Infrastructure

    Carl Gahnberg calls for guardrails and policy guidelines to prevent governments from abusing the policy paradigm.
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    Services Are the New Road to Development

    Indermit Gill & Aaditya Mattoo explain why developing countries need a new paradigm to replace the old manufacturing-led model.
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    Russia Just Lost Its Great-Power Status

    Galip Dalay explains why the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has diminished the Kremlin’s global influence.
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    Twelve Questions for Philanthropists

    Dambisa Moyo offers practical advice to those who want to contribute effectively to charitable causes.
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    PS Commentators’ Best Reads in 2024

    PS editors

    At the end of a year of domestic and international upheaval, Project Syndicate commentators share their favorite books from the past 12 months. Covering a wide array of genres and disciplines, this year’s picks provide fresh perspectives on the defining challenges of our time and how to confront them.

    ask Project Syndicate contributors to select the books that resonated with them the most over the past year.
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    The World Needs Ocean-Based Climate Solutions

    Ilana Seid calls for creative mechanisms for financing investment in our planet’s largest carbon sink.
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    The West Is Not Dying, but It Is Working on It

    Yanis Varoufakis argues that Western power is alive and well, but the lofty values that once sustained it have been abandoned.

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