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Sustainable Development. Investing in nature gives industry and business a competitive advantage. Here’s why (André Hoffmann, Katell Le Goulven, WEF)

On the agenda at the IUCN Congress in Marseille is awareness that investment in a vibrant natural world opens the door to sustainable...

Digital Inclusion. Innovative debt financing could close the digital access gap. Here’s how (Burke Norton, Bill Horton, WEF)

Digitization of services is on the rise, with digital inclusion affecting access to healthcare, education and financial services. Business, government and civil society...

Cybersecurity. Digital privacy comes at a price. Here’s how to protect it (Robert Muggah, WEF)

Data privacy exchanged for frictionless convenience is being compromised, stolen and leaked with disturbing regularity. People do not consciously put a price on...

Nepal. Fifth time lucky? Deuba’s last chance for a legacy in Nepal (Michael Hutt, East Asia Forum)

On 13 July 2021, 75-year-old Sher Bahadur Deuba, leader of the Nepali Congress party, was appointed Prime Minister by order of Nepal’s Supreme Court....

Japan. Suga’s resignation opens up Japan’s leadership race (Jeff Kingston, East Asia Forum)

On 3 September 2021, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga unexpectedly announced he would not run in the Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) presidential race scheduled...

SDR. This SDR Allocation Must Be Different (Barry Eichengreen, Project-Syndicate)

When the International Monetary Fund announced last month a new $650 billion allocation of special drawing rights, the hope was that high-income countries would...

Afghanistan/Future World. Three Lessons from a Two-Decade Failure (Javier Solana, Project-Syndicate)

The debacle in Afghanistan this summer confirmed what many have long suspected: that much of the West’s foreign policy since the September 11, 2001,...

USA. Learning the Right Lessons from US Economic Experimentation (Dani Rodrik, Project-Syndicate)

In one policy area after another – from trade to taxation to labor markets – the decades-old consensus in the United States has been...

The symbol and the risk (by Marco Emanuele)

After twenty years, September 11, 2001 (which we have raised as a symbol that traces a new era) still speaks to us. We look...

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