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EventsSep 21, 2021Mark Malloch-Brown
discusses the Open Society Foundations’ plans to support climate adaptation in the Global South in order to level the global climate action playing field.
EventsJul 8, 2021Nancy Qian
highlights the complexities of delivering universal health coverage, and pinpoints the education and governance goals that must be achieved first.
EventsJul 8, 2021David Miliband
outlines the basic changes that could have prevented the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic – and will help prevent the next one.
EventsJul 8, 2021Carl Manlan
proposes ways for African governments to leverage their assets not only to strengthen their public-health systems, but also to advance development more broadly.
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Following the Chinese government’s sweeping corporate crackdown this year, three recent books on the country’s governance model have become especially timely. Each suggests that Chinese President Xi Jinping will have to navigate fundamental contradictions in his quest for “common prosperity.”
reviews three books examining the increasingly obvious flaws in the country’s governance model.
Even if today’s fears of a global production meltdown prove to be exaggerated, COVID-19 has exposed the myriad vulnerabilities of cross-border value chains. The key issue, beyond the immediate priority of easing input shortages, is whether firms will need state help to protect themselves against future supply disruptions.
