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Stephen Groff

Stephen Groff

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Stephen Groff is the Asian Development Bank’s vice-president for East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific.

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  1. To Resist the Robots, Invest in People
    A woman sews a cloth in a local garment shop in Dhaka K M Asad/Getty Images

    To Resist the Robots, Invest in People

    Jan 3, 2018 Stephen Groff says Asian governments have much more to do to prepare their workforces for a future of automation.

  2. The Next Migrant Wave
    Homeless child rain Dhaka NurPhoto

    The Next Migrant Wave

    Dec 29, 2016 Stephen Groff urges action now to prepare for people in low-lying countries fleeing the effects of climate change.

  3. Putting out Indonesia’s Fires
    Forest fire in Indonesia

    Putting out Indonesia’s Fires

    Dec 3, 2015 Stephen Groff warns that the country's massive forest fires threaten to make climate change harder to combat.

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    Greenland’s Future Must Be Decided by Greenland’s People

    Simon Johnson dismisses the argument that US national security depends on gaining control over the island.
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    Nature Needs Its Own ID

    Midori Paxton shows how digital tools can drive a data-driven approach to protecting our planet’s environmental health.
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    Ukraine’s True Value

    Anastassia Fedyk & Emilia Marshall

    Ukraine’s immense industrial and human resources once helped make the Soviet Union a global power, and Russian President Vladimir Putin is counting on them to achieve his neo-imperialist dream. With the US now behaving like a Kremlin proxy, supporting Ukraine has become an existential imperative for Europe.

    warn that abandoning the country could hand Vladimir Putin the opportunity to restore Russia’s imperial status.
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    America Is Gone – Europe Must Replace It

    Sławomir Sierakowski

    Donald Trump and J.D. Vance’s verbal assault on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office was shocking but not surprising. As the Trump administration rapidly destroys America's credibility and international standing, Europe must mobilize its ample resources to replace America as a global leader.

    says the Trump administration's Oval Office fight with Ukraine's president is a moment that will live in infamy.
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    Can America Maintain External Sustainability?

    Yu Yongding explains why demand for foreign capital inflows to offset the country’s savings shortfall may go unmet.
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    The Coming Showdown in Trumpworld

    Dani Rodrik points out that a coalition comprising incompatible financial and ideological interests cannot last.
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    Trump’s Self-Fulfilling Crisis

    Stephen S. Roach shows how the US president’s policies could create the very problems he falsely claims to be confronting.
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    Britain Must Downgrade the Special Relationship

    Chris Patten outlines steps UK policymakers must take to mitigate the strategic threat posed by the Trump administration.
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    America’s Oligarchs Are Trump’s Achilles’ Heel

    Gabriel Zucman proposes that countries targeted by US tariffs retaliate with taxes on Elon Musk and his peers.

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