Tag: Project-Syndicate

Global – The Case for a G21 (Project-Syndicate)

JEFFREY D. SACHS writes: As a powerful complement to the United Nations, the G20 has acquitted itself well by representing most of the world’s...

USA – The Dangers of Endless Quantitative Easing (Project-Syndicate)

RAGHURAM G. RAJAN writes: With growth so uncertain, it is understandable that central banks would be wary of beginning to taper monthly bond purchases...

USA – Is the US Economy Running Out of Slack? (Project-Syndicate)

WILLEM H. BUITER writes: Given the unprecedented nature of the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on labor markets, there is a spirited debate over...

Supply Chains – Making Supply Chains More Resilient (Project-Syndicate)

DALIA MARIN writes: The current global semiconductor shortage illustrates how geographic clustering of input suppliers can generate upheavals in the rest of the world....

Russia/USA/Europe – Countering Putin’s Grand Strategy (Project-Syndicate)

ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER, HEATHER ASHBY write: Russia is playing a global game, and the US and Europe are so busy protecting their corners that they are...

Global Health – Bridging Health’s Racial Divide (Project-Syndicate)

JEANNE MOUTOUSSAMY-ASHE, WAYNE C. KOFF write for Project-Syndicate: The world is poised to make transformative advances in disease prevention and control over the coming decades....

(Latin America) Latin America’s Perfect Storm (Project-Syndicate)

JAVIER SOLANA, ENRIQUE V. IGLESIAS writes for Project-Syndicate: The mass protests that have recently erupted in countries as different as Colombia and Cuba attest to...

(Central Banks) Put Central Bankers in Their Place (Project-Syndicate)

HOWARD DAVIES writes for Project-Syndicate: Current loose monetary policies in developed economies are likely to increase wealth inequality, and in the short term there...

(Middle East) Managing a New Middle-East Order (Project-Syndicate)

SHLOMO BEN-AMI writes for Project-Syndicate: Ongoing shifts in alliances in the region are being driven partly by Iran’s growing influence. But the real story...

(Climate Change/Net Zero) How to Reach Net Zero (Project-Syndicate)

HELEN MOUNTFORD, MAURICIO CÁRDENAS write for Project-Syndicate: While the world has many ambitious long-term climate targets, it lacks strategies to put the right investments and...

(Emerging Markets) Where are the risks for emerging markets?

Otaviano Canuto writes for Project-Syndicate: In early July, the yield on US ten-year Treasury bonds fell to its lowest level in four months, and stock markets...

(Destructive Fishing) The urgent need to limit subsidies to destructive fishing

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala writes for Project-Syndicate: It is not often that trade negotiators get a chance simultaneously to protect vulnerable people and their livelihoods, promote...

(USA/Afghanistan) Is the American withdrawal from Afghanistan a mistake?

Brahma Chellaney wrotes for Project-Syndicate: Afghanistan is on the brink of catastrophe, and it is US President Joe Biden’s fault. By overruling America’s top generals and...

(Stablecoins) An obscure corner of the digital sphere: stablecoins

Barry Eichengreen writes for Project-Syndicate: The debate over stablecoins has come a long way since Facebook announced the creation of Libra (now rebranded Diem)...

USA – The Real Inflation Risk (Daron Acemoglu, Project-Syndicate)

While the risk of sustained US inflation should not be ignored, nor should it cloud our view of what is really at stake in...

Afghanistan – After Afghanistan Falls (Djoomart Otorbaev, Project-Syndicate)

With US and NATO troops on their way out and the Taliban making rapid territorial gains, Russia, China, and Central Asian governments are increasingly...