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Kristalina Georgieva

Kristalina Georgieva

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Kristalina Georgieva is Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund.

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  1. Africa Cannot Confront Climate Change Alone
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    Africa Cannot Confront Climate Change Alone

    Dec 17, 2021 Kristalina Georgieva & Félix Tshisekedi explain how the international community can do more to support mitigation and adaptation efforts.

  2. Keeping the Global Focus on Low-Income Countries
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    Keeping the Global Focus on Low-Income Countries

    Nov 25, 2020 Kristalina Georgieva & Sigrid Kaag call for a greater effort to extend debt relief, financing, and other assistance to the world's poorest.

  3. The Right Investments to Address the Human Capital Crisis
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    The Right Investments to Address the Human Capital Crisis

    Jan 22, 2019 Kristalina Georgieva urges world leaders to spend more now on health, education, and skills to meet rising economic aspirations.

  4. The High Price of Gender Inequality
     Indian women work at a garment factory in Ludhiana MONEY SHARMA/AFP/Getty Images

    The High Price of Gender Inequality

    Jun 11, 2018 Kristalina Georgieva & Marie-Claude Bibeau advocate a comprehensive effort to unleash the full economic potential of women and girls.

  5. Safer Climate Disasters
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    Safer Climate Disasters

    Jun 13, 2014 Kristalina Georgieva & Margareta Wahlström issue a call for greater efforts to reduce the risks associated with extreme weather events.

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    The Other Conflict on Europe’s Doorstep

    Anders Fogh Rasmussen warns that Azerbaijan may be preparing to renew its military aggression against neighboring Armenia.
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    Let the Banks Burn

    Yanis Varoufakis

    The banking system we take for granted is unfixable. The good news is that we no longer need to rely on any private, rent-seeking, socially destabilizing network of banks, at least not the way we have so far.

    shows why the current private system is unfixable – and why we don’t need to tolerate it anymore.
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    How China Benefits from Another US Banking Crisis

    Stephen S. Roach thinks America’s latest financial trouble will reinforce a narrative of terminal national decline.
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    Xi Jinping’s Chinese Tragedy

    Orville Schell interviewed by Irena Grudzińska Gross

    Like Vladimir Putin, China's leader is so steeped in a narrative of victimhood and fearful of appearing weak that it is hard to imagine him ever leading China out of the mess he has created. He could well be remembered as the leader who squandered history's most remarkable economic success story.

    about the country's increasingly worrisome trajectory, both at home and abroad.
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    Artificial Idiocy

    Slavoj Žižek fears that the rise of powerful chatbots will spell the death of irony and nuance in human thought.
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    Localizing Development Research

    Julia Kaufman & Jane Wanjiku Mariara explain why funders should be providing more long-term resources to researchers in developing countries.
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    The Simplest Fix for Banking

    Jan Eeckhout explains how central bank digital currencies would end bank runs and banks' excessive risk-taking.
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    America’s Interest in Ending the Ukraine Crisis

    Brahma Chellaney explains why prolonging the conflict risks realizing the West’s worst geopolitical nightmare.
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    America’s Industrial Policy Is Counterproductive

    Anne O. Krueger laments that the Biden administration is adding red tape to an inefficient subsidy program.

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