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How a complete AI architecture can transform business (Umesh Sachdev, WEF)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can enrich customer experiences and enhance conversations with customers – both crucial to the success of a business. The next...

Biden’s misguided framing of US-China rivalry as democracy versus autocracy (Baogang He, East Asia Forum)

On 9 December 2021, US President Joe Biden will hold the ‘Summit for Democracy’, where he will likely repeat his emphasis on a battle between democracies...

Coal versus money in Asia (Peter McCawley, East Asia Forum)

The use of coal needs to be cut back as quickly as possible. Activists in developed countries are calling for new regulatory controls over...

Interpreting India at the Summit for Democracy (Constantino Xavier, Brookings)

As the world’s largest democracy, with 1.4 billion people, India is an indispensable actor for democratic cooperation, especially beyond the West. For the Indian...

How Buffalo’s East Side Avenues is training citizen developers to revitalize commercial corridors (Laura Quebral, Brookings)

In 2018, the state of New York committed an unprecedented investment—$65 million—to a new place-based initiative to revitalize Buffalo’s East Side. There is perhaps...

Why is WTO reform so difficult? (Mireya Solís and David Dollar, Brookings)

Mireya Solís, director of the Center for East Asia Policy Studies at Brookings, joins David Dollar for a conversation on reforming and modernizing the World Trade...

The awkward guests: Parsing the Summit for Democracy invitation list (Ted Piccone, Brookings)

President Joe Biden has set the table for the world’s first-ever summit devoted to building both national and international political will for democratic renewal....

FOCAC 2021: China’s retrenchment from Africa? (Yun Sun, Brookings)

The eighth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) ministerial meeting that took place in Dakar, Senegal, concluded just last week. Like previous FOCAC meetings, China...

Back to the future: Climate change resilience, self-insurance, and market insurance (Olivier Mahul, Brookings)

The ongoing policy discussions about climate change resilience and the role of prevention and insurance, including the recent blog by Matthew Kahn and Somik Lall, reminded...

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