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Pascal Lamy, a former director-general of the World Trade Organization, is the vice chair of the Paris Peace Forum and co-chair of ATLAS.

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  1. The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap
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    The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap

    Jan 21, 2025 Pascal Lamy, et al. explain how investments in African agri-food systems can advance many of the Sustainable Development Goals.

  2. Preparing for Climate Overshoot
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    Preparing for Climate Overshoot

    May 18, 2022 Pascal Lamy announces a new commission to explore how to minimize the damage if the target for global warming is missed.

  3. EU Leaders Must Hold the Green Line
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    EU Leaders Must Hold the Green Line

    Dec 10, 2020 Pascal Lamy, et al. urge the European Council not to give in to Hungarian and Polish extortion over the rule of law.

  4. Global Trade’s Bright (Green) Future
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    Global Trade’s Bright (Green) Future

    Nov 13, 2019 Pascal Lamy reports on the progress made toward reducing greenhouse-gas emissions from the shipping industry.

  5. The Fight for Ocean Health
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    The Fight for Ocean Health

    Feb 15, 2017 José María Figueres, et al. call on government, business, and citizens to unite and take action to save marine ecosystems.

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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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