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John W. McArthur

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John W. McArthur is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution.

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  1. How Is the World Really Doing on the SDGs?
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    How Is the World Really Doing on the SDGs?

    Oct 1, 2024 Homi Kharas & John W. McArthur offer a balanced assessment of the forms and pace of progress made since 2015.

  2. Rebooting the Sustainable Development Goals
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    Rebooting the Sustainable Development Goals

    Jul 19, 2024 John W. McArthur & Zia Khan urge political, business, and civil-society leaders to foster the big ideas needed to meet the 2030 targets.

  3. Let the Great Transition Begin
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    Let the Great Transition Begin

    Jan 7, 2021 Zia Khan & John W. McArthur urge world leaders to focus on building a new post-crisis future, rather than returning to the status quo ante.

  4. Lessons From an Age of Progress
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    Lessons From an Age of Progress

    Mar 17, 2017 John W. McArthur applies insights from the Millennium Development Goals to current global development efforts.

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    It’s Time to Abandon Trump’s Flawed Negotiation Playbook

    Michele Gelfand points out that the best dealmakers strive for win-win outcomes, not zero-sum Pyrrhic victories.
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    America’s Last Chance to Lead in Fusion Energy

    Ylli Bajraktari warns that China's domination of the sector would give it massive economic and geopolitical leverage.
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    China Can’t Spend Its Way Out of Trouble

    Kenneth Rogoff

    China’s prolonged reliance on fiscal stimulus has distorted economic incentives, fueling a housing glut, a collapse in prices, and spiraling public debt. With further stimulus off the table, the only sustainable path is for the central government to relinquish more economic power to local governments and the private sector.

     argues that the country’s problems can be traced back to its response to the 2008 financial crisis.
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    This UN Debt Initiative Is Different

    Mahmoud Mohieldin, et al. tout an Expert Group’s efforts to prevent a full-blown solvency crisis in developing countries.
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    What African Electrification Requires

    Fatih Birol & Alain Ebobissé highlight the need for greater private-sector participation to boost investments in power grids.
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    How World Order Changes

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

    World order is a matter of degree: it varies over time, depending on technological, political, social, and ideological factors that can affect the global distribution of power and influence norms. It can be radically altered both by broader historical trends and by a single major power's blunders.

     examines the role of evolving power dynamics and norms in bringing about stable arrangements among states.
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    Israel’s Blind Spot

    Ian Buruma explains the lack of sympathy, even among the country’s many anti-war protesters, for Palestinian suffering.
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    Will AI Close or Widen the Development Gap?

    Shamika Sirimanne & Xiaolan Fu call for multilateral action and grassroots pressure to ensure that the technology serves all countries.
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    Don’t Let Governments Break Encryption

    Jessica Dickinson Goodman & Ezequiel Passeron Kitroser urge citizens and lawmakers to fight for the privacy that previous generations took for granted.

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