Tag: Project-Syndicate

How Olaf Scholz Won Germany (Dalia Marin, Project-Syndicate)

In the space of just months, Olaf Scholz has completely reversed the Social Democrats' decade-long decline. By running on a message of dignity and...

India’s green growth imperative (Dhruba Purkayastha, Project-Syndicate)

Image: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images India’s commitments under the 2015 Paris climate agreement, which aims to limit global warming to well below 2°C relative to pre-industrial levels, include...

How to Avert a Global Climate Catastrophe (Omar Razzaz, Project-Syndicate)

Current global efforts to raise awareness and nudge and shame policymakers are necessary but not sufficient to prevent an existential climate crisis. Addressing the...

The Developing World’s Hidden Inflation Risks (Rabah Arezki, Jean-Pierre Landau, Project-Syndicate)

A combination of specific inflationary shocks and vulnerabilities could seriously threaten developing economies' stability and prosperity. Although part of the policy response to these...

Norway’s Sovereign Duty (Christiana Figueres, Håvard Halland, Knut Anton Mork, Project-Syndicate)

Having built its wealth by pumping hydrocarbons out of the seabed, Norway has an obligation to leverage the power of its massive sovereign wealth...

What COVID-19 Revealed About Hunger (Brittany Kesselman, Project-Syndicate)

The pandemic has shown the importance of community-based initiatives in fighting food insecurity. Unfortunately, when the United Nations Food Systems Summit convenes this month,...

The Atlantic Alliance After Afghanistan (Gunther Hellmann, Charles A. Kupchan, Project-Syndicate)

The transatlantic alliance is enjoying a period of restoration following the damage done by former US President Donald Trump. But as the West’s messy...

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...

Geostrategic Competition. The Afghan Tragedy and the Age of Unpeace (Mark Leonard, Project-Syndicate)

The end of the US-led “forever war” in Afghanistan will not bring peace, because the methods that countries use to attack each other have...

USA. America’s Return to Realism (Eric Posner, Project-Syndicate)

It was already clear that former President Donald Trump repudiated the humanitarian or quasi-humanitarian motives that underpinned US military interventions after the Cold War....

Africa. Africa Must Produce Its Own Vaccines (Landry Signé, Project-Syndicate)

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Africa has relied on bilateral agreements and multilateral platforms like COVAX to deliver vaccine doses. But these have proved far...

Afghanistan. The Economic Roots of the Afghan Debacle (Daniel Gros, Project-Syndicate)

Afghanistan experienced rapid economic growth in the decade following the US invasion and the ouster of the Taliban. But the subsequent stagnation of living...

Ecocide. Prosecuting Ecocide (Kate Mackintosh, Jojo Mehta, Richard Rogers, Project-Syndicate)

As proliferating disasters starkly demonstrate, severe damage to the environment is a crime against everyone. Rather than leave it to regulation by individual states,...

Europe. Europe’s New Refugee Crisis (Sławomir Sierakowski, Project-Syndicate)

The meltdown in Afghanistan has brought Europe's rancorous debate over immigration and asylum back to the fore. The new front line is the border...