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Justin Yifu Lin, a former World Bank chief economist, is Dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics and Dean of the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development at Peking University. 

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  1. The Uphill Battle Against Poverty
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    The Uphill Battle Against Poverty

    Dec 16, 2024 Hippolyte Fofack, et al. consider whether progress against humanity's age-old problem will continue to disappoint.

  2. What the Paris Development Finance Summit Missed
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    What the Paris Development Finance Summit Missed

    Jul 10, 2023 Håvard Halland, et al. warn that the current reform agenda will not mobilize sufficient private capital for green investments.

  3. Geopoliticized Industrial Policy Won't Work
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    Geopoliticized Industrial Policy Won't Work

    Feb 24, 2022 Otaviano Canuto, et al. show why attending to economic fundamentals should take precedence when it comes to reshoring or nearshoring.

  4. Development Begins at Home
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    Development Begins at Home

    Dec 6, 2021 Justin Yifu Lin & Yan Wang consider the pandemic's lessons for sustainable growth, including the role Chinese investment can play.

  5. A Turning Point for Development Aid
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    A Turning Point for Development Aid

    Dec 30, 2019 Justin Yifu Lin & Yan Wang show why accusations that China is engaging in “debt-trap diplomacy” are fundamentally flawed.

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    Trump’s Misguided Tariff Formula

    Shang-Jin Wei criticizes the administration's crude calculations, which disregard textbook macroeconomic principles.
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    The US Must Change Course on Myanmar

    Brahma Chellaney outlines a policy approach that would promote stability, rather than perpetuating criminality and violence.
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    Europe Must Move Faster to Defend Itself

    Anastassia Fedyk, et al. outline four steps European leaders can take to accelerate rearmament and mitigate the Russian threat.
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    Will the IMF Get Played by Javier Milei?

    Martín Guzmán

    In pursuing a new loan from the International Monetary Fund, Argentinian President Javier Milei's government has made no secret of its self-interested political motivations. If the world's lender of last resort falls for the ploy, it could suffer a loss of credibility from which it might not recover.

     worries that the Fund will damage its credibility by issuing another politically motivated loan to Argentina.
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    There Is No Method to Trump’s Tariff Madness

    Andrés Velasco sees no merit in any of the rationales the White House has advanced for launching a global trade war.
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    Navigating the Trump Storm

    Michael Spence

    With a variety of larger forces driving profound changes, the outlook for the global economy was cloudy even before Donald Trump's return to the White House added to the uncertainty. But one thing is clear: the previous era of global interdependence based on efficiency and mutually beneficial arrangements is over.

     considers the US administration's policy shake-up against the backdrop of larger global trends.
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    Up Against Trump’s Tariff Wall

    Ian Bremmer explains why US trade policy is tantamount to an unprecedented economic “own goal.”
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    Is a North-South Divide Opening in India?

    Shashi Tharoor fears that the government’s push to redraw the electoral map will favor poorer, more populous states.
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    American Suicide

    Joschka Fischer mourns the loss of the United States and the relative peace and prosperity that its global leadership enabled.

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