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  1. Jon Ungphakorn

    Jon Ungphakorn

    Writing for PS since 2005
    1 Commentary

    Jon Ungphakorn is an elected member of the Thai Senate and committee member of the Asean Inter-Parliamentary Caucus on Democracy in Myanmar. He recently received the prestigious 2005 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service for his work with communities affected by HIV/AIDS and for his work on human rights issues in Thailand.

  2. Per Unckel

    Writing for PS since 2008
    1 Commentary

    Per Unckel is a former Swedish Minister of Education and Science.

  3. Richard Uku

    Writing for PS since 2008
    1 Commentary

    Richard Uku is a senior executive of the Africa Finance Corporation.

  4. Kori Udovicki

    Kori Udovicki

    Writing for PS since 2011
    1 Commentary

    Kori Udovicki is Regional Director for Europe and the CIS at the United Nations Development Program.

  5. Barbara Unmüßig

    Barbara Unmüßig

    Writing for PS since 2013
    10 Commentaries

    Barbara Unmüßig is President of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

  6. Iñigo Urkullu

    Iñigo Urkullu

    Writing for PS since 2015
    1 Commentary

    Iñigo Urkullu is President of the Basque Country.

  7. Simon Upton

    Simon Upton

    Writing for PS since 2016
    2 Commentaries

    Simon Upton is Environment Director at the OECD.

  8. Kairat Umarov

    Kairat Umarov

    Writing for PS since 2016
    1 Commentary

    Kairat Umarov is Kazakhstan’s Ambassador to the United States.

  9. Nadeem ul Haque

    Nadeem ul Haque

    Writing for PS since 2017
    3 Commentaries

    Nadeem ul Haque is a former deputy chairman of the Planning Commission of Pakistan and a former senior resident representative of the IMF in Egypt and Sri Lanka.

  10. Eskil Ullberg

    Eskil Ullberg

    Writing for PS since 2018
    1 Commentary

    Eskil Ullberg is a professor of economics at George Mason University and Director of the Trade in Ideas Program at the Institute for Management of Innovation and Technology.

  11. Anthony Underwood

    Anthony Underwood

    Writing for PS since 2019
    1 Commentary

    Anthony Underwood is an assistant professor of economics at Dickinson College.

  12. Pat Utomi

    Pat Utomi

    Writing for PS since 2020
    1 Commentary

    Pat Utomi, Chair of the African Union’s Pan-African Private Sector Trade and Investment Committee (PAFTRAC), heads the Centre for Values in Leadership at the Lagos Business School.

  13. Elo Umeh

    Elo Umeh

    Writing for PS since 2020
    1 Commentary

    Elo Umeh is CEO and co-founder of Terragon Group, a Nigeria-based data analytics and marketing tech company..

  14. Sebastian Unger

    Sebastian Unger

    Writing for PS since 2020
    1 Commentary

    Sebastian Unger heads the Ocean Governance Working Group at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam. 

  15. Vygaudas Ušackas

    Vygaudas Ušackas

    Writing for PS since 2021
    1 Commentary

    Vygaudas Ušackas is a former foreign minister of Lithuania.

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    Democracies Are Not “Backsliding”

    Jan-Werner Mueller thinks the language commonly used to describe the shift toward authoritarianism is hampering solutions.
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    Christine Lagarde’s Gifts to Populists

    Yanis Varoufakis worries that the European Central Bank's blunders have revived the far right's political fortunes.
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    Bridging the Climate-Development Gap

    Dani Rodrik & Ishac Diwan explain how to free up fiscal space for sustainable development in many low- and middle-income countries.
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    Lower Transaction Costs for Greater Innovation

    Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng highlight the link between access to global markets and investment in research and development.
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    Ashoka Mody on Indian corruption, growth, jobs, and more

    Ashoka Mody explains the roots of the lack of accountability in India, highlights shortcomings in human capital and gender equality, casts doubt on the country’s ability to assume a Chinese-style role in manufacturing, and more.
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    Why India’s Women Are More Vulnerable to Disasters

    Joyita Roy Chowdhury & Prarthna Agarwal Goel call attention to gender inequalities that exacerbate the effects of floods and other natural catastrophes.
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    Europe in the Age of Industrial Policy

    Michael Spence

    While China and the US take advantage of scale to pursue large-scale investment in critical sectors, the EU struggles to follow suit, owing to its decentralized fiscal structures and rules limiting government subsidies to industry. A new EU-level investment program is urgently needed.

    advocates a federal investment program, funded by EU sovereign-debt issuance and administered centrally.
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    Fixing Global Governance

    Gordon Brown explains how to make the G20 and the Bretton Woods institutions fit for purpose once again.
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    The EU Needs Fiscal Union

    Lucrezia Reichlin laments the pro-cyclical bent of the European Commission’s proposed reforms to fiscal rules.

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