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  1. Kandeh Yumkella is a former United Nations under-secretary-general and a former special representative of the secretary-general for Sustainable Energy for All.

  2. Viktor Yushchenko

    Viktor Yushchenko

    Writing for PS since 2000
    2 Commentaries

    Victor Yushchenko is a former president of Ukraine (2005-10).

  3. Yevgeny Yasin

    Yevgeny Yasin

    Writing for PS since 2001
    2 Commentaries

    Yevgeny Yasin, a former Russian Minister for the Economy under President Yeltsin, is Research director at the Supreme School of Economics in Moscow.

  4. Grigory Yavlinsky

    Grigory Yavlinsky

    Writing for PS since 2002
    4 Commentaries

    Grigory Yavlinsky is Chairman of the Russian United Democratic Party Yabloko.

  5. Shunli Yao

    Writing for PS since 2002
    1 Commentary

    Shunli Yao is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Beijing.

  6. Michael Young

    Michael Young

    Writing for PS since 2005
    4 Commentaries

    Michael Young is the opinion editor of the Daily Star newspaper and the author of The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon’s Life Struggle.

  7. Pan Yue

    Pan Yue

    Writing for PS since 2006
    1 Commentary

    Pan Yue is a former Chinese deputy minister of environment.

  8. A.B. Yehoshua

    A.B. Yehoshua

    Writing for PS since 2008
    11 Commentaries

    A. B. Yehoshua is one of Israel’s preeminent novelists. His latest book is Friendly Fire.

  9. Gary Yohe

    Gary Yohe

    Writing for PS since 2008
    2 Commentaries

    Gary Yohe is Professor of Economics at Wesleyan University.

  10. Igor Yurgens

    Writing for PS since 2008
    1 Commentary

    Igor Yurgens is Chairman of the Board of the Modern Development Institute.

  11. H P. Young

    Writing for PS since 2008
    1 Commentary

    H. Peyton Young is Professor of Economics at Oxford University and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

  12. Yoon Young-kwan

    Yoon Young-kwan

    Writing for PS since 2008
    30 Commentaries

    Yoon Young-kwan, a former South Korean minister of foreign affairs and trade, is Chairman of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies.

  13. Irina Yasina

    Writing for PS since 2008
    2 Commentaries

    Irina Yasina is an analyst at the Institute of Transitional Economy, a weekly economic commentator for RIA Novosti, and a representative of the Open Russia Foundation.

  14. Mohammed Yaghi

    Mohammed Yaghi

    Writing for PS since 2009
    1 Commentary

    Mohammad Yaghi is a Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

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    Whither the G20?

    Takatoshi Ito

    Following the latest G20 summit, the G7 should be thinking seriously about deepening its own ties with more non-aligned countries. If the Ukraine war drags on, and if China continues to threaten to take Taiwan by force, the G20 will be split between friends of the BRICS and friends of the G7.

    sees the grouping as increasingly divided between friends of the G7 and friends of China and Russia.
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    Making the Most of Africa’s Strategic Green Minerals

    Marit Kitaw explains how the continent can move beyond resource extraction to build green industry.
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    America Must Join Europe’s Climate Club

    Gary Yohe & Roger Kuhns urge US policymakers to create a carbon-pricing policy in line with the bloc’s emissions-reduction plan.
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    Measuring Corruption in China

    Yongheng Deng & Shang-Jin Wei outline a novel approach to assessing the extent and scope of the country's graft problem.
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    To Protect Democracy, Revive Local Journalism

    Laura Tyson & Lenny Mendonca identify promising new models and philanthropic initiatives geared toward supporting independent media.
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    How to Achieve Universal Cancer Care

    Sonali Johnson urges governments worldwide to include the disease in national health-insurance schemes.
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    What Climate Finance Needs

    Nouriel Roubini & Reza Bundy

    To prevent catastrophic climate change and accelerate the global transition to a net-zero economy, policymakers and asset owners urgently need to rethink how we channel capital at scale. The key is to develop new financial instruments that are profitable, liquid, and easily accessible to savers and investors globally.

    explain what it will take to channel private capital and savings toward sustainable development.
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    Down on the Biden Economy

    James K. Galbraith thinks the failure of wages to keep up with inflation explains much of the public’s dour mood.
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    The Dollar’s Full-Spectrum Dominance

    Carla Norrlöf foresees the greenback’s continued global hegemony owing to network effects and opportunism.

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