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Mia Amor Mottley

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Mia Amor Mottley is Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Barbados.

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  1. The Case for Solidarity Levies
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    The Case for Solidarity Levies

    Nov 8, 2024 Emmanuel Macron, et al. call for new global levies on targeted sectors to finance the green investment developing countries need.

  2. How to Mobilize Private Climate Finance
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    How to Mobilize Private Climate Finance

    Sep 30, 2024 Mette Frederiksen & Mia Amor Mottley explain why “blended finance” should be central to discussions ahead of this year's UN Climate Change Conference.

  3. What Climate-Vulnerable Developing Countries Need Right Now
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    What Climate-Vulnerable Developing Countries Need Right Now

    Jun 21, 2024 Mia Amor Mottley & Wale Edun propose a blueprint to unlock financing and kickstart investment in adaptation and clean energy.

  4. What It Will Take to Transform Development Finance
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    What It Will Take to Transform Development Finance

    Jun 21, 2023 Mia Amor Mottley & Werner Hoyer call for new, low-cost lending instruments to invest in building resilience among vulnerable populations.

  5. A Green Transition That Leaves No One Behind
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    A Green Transition That Leaves No One Behind

    Jun 20, 2023 Emmanuel Macron, et al. set out a vision of global collective action based on solidarity with the world’s poor.

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    Trump at the Gates

    Joschka Fischer urges Europeans to recognize that they are now on their own in an increasingly dangerous world.
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    The End of Progress?

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Though the United States has long led the world in advancing basic science and technology, it is hard to see how this can continue under President Donald Trump and the country’s ascendant oligarchy. America’s rejection of Enlightenment values will have dire consequences.

     predicts that Donald Trump’s second administration will be defined by its rejection of Enlightenment values.
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    China’s Trump Dilemma

    Yanis Varoufakis

    Will the China hawks in Donald Trump’s administration railroad him into a confrontation that transcends tariffs and embraces financial sanctions of the type the US and the European Union imposed on Russia? If they do, China's leaders will have to decide whether to decouple from the dollar-based international monetary system.

     thinks the real choice facing Chinese leaders may be whether to challenge the dollar's hegemony head-on.
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    The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap

    Pascal Lamy, et al. explain how investments in African agri-food systems can advance many of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
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    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.
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    The TikTok Boomerang

    Angela Huyue Zhang thinks the US government's ban on the app has left it in an untenable position.

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