Tag: Project-Syndicate

Cryptocurrencies – In Bitcoin We Trust? (Paola Subacchi, Project-Syndicate)

Coordinated cross-border policies are needed to ensure that cryptocurrencies don’t do more harm than good in developing countries. Unless both the public and private...

Perspectives – How to Feed Ourselves (Gilbert F. Houngbo, Project-Syndicate)

Climate change is accelerating, biodiversity is plummeting, hunger and extreme poverty are skyrocketing, and the gap between rich and poor is widening. Reversing these...

China/USA – Accommodating China Is Unavoidable (Andrew Sheng, Xiao Geng, Project-Syndicate)

"Absolute national security" might have been a reasonable goal for the US when the country stood at the helm of a unipolar world order....

China – The Chinese Economy’s Great Wall (Jim O’Neill, Project-Syndicate)

For better or worse, China and its economic policies now play a decisive role in the global economy, giving everyone an interest in its...

Vaccine/Pandemic/G7 – The G7 Vaccine Charade (James K. Galbraith, Project-Syndicate)

The US and Europe are offering low- and middle-income countries crumbs, so that they can protect their billionaires, their pharmaceutical lobbies, and their campaign...

Vaccine/Pandemic – Vaccine Hesitancy or Systemic Racism? (Tian Johnson, Stephaun E. Wallace, Maaza Seyoum, Project-Syndicate)

Minority communities and developing-country populations may approach health services cautiously – and with good reason, given the medical profession's history of inhumanity. But, by...

Climate Risk Analytics – New Frontiers in Climate-Risk Analytics (Paul Munday, Michael Wilkins, Project-Syndicate)

There currently is no perfect solution for assessing the financial effects of physical climate change, but this should not be an excuse for inaction....

Brexit – Brexit’s Collateral Damage (Chris Patten, Project-Syndicate)

Five years after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, the costs of that decision are becoming clearer. Most perniciously, trust in...

USA – America’s Comeback Tour (Javier Solana, Project-Syndicate)

US President Joe Biden’s first international tour felt like a breath of fresh air. From the G7 summit in Cornwall to a meeting with...

USA/China – Biden Is Back, America Isn’t (Carl Bildt, Project-Syndicate)

America is back. That was the key message US President Joe Biden sought to convey during his first trip abroad since taking office in...

Climate Change – Deciding Humanity’s Future (Johan Rockström, Marcia McNutt, Brian Schmidt, Project-Syndicate)

At the recent G7 summit in Cornwall, Sir David Attenborough described the decisions currently facing the world’s richest countries as “the most important in human...

Climate Change – Observing the Green Swans (Hélène Rey, Project-Syndicate)

The statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb coined the term “black swan” to describe improbable, hard-to-predict events that can have a massive impact on the economy. The authors...

USA – Biden’s Antitrust Revolutionaries (Eric Posner, Project-Syndicate)

With the prominent anti-monopoly advocate Lina Khan having been appointed the new chair of the Federal Trade Commission, it is a good time to...

USA – The Gaps in Bidenomics (Robert Skidelsky, Project-Syndicate)

US President Joe Biden has set out to emulate Franklin D. Roosevelt by spending huge amounts of money, something that FDR avoided doing until...

China/Tibetan Plateau – One Hundred Years of Devastation (Brahma Chellaney, Project-Syndicate)

On July 1, the Communist Party of China (CPC) will stage a patriotic extravaganza to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding. Among the...

Post Communist European Countries – Post-Communist Lessons for the Green Transition (Werner Hoyer, Sabine Mauderer, Project-Syndicate)

Three decades after the events that lifted the Iron Curtain and sparked the integration of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe into the global economy,...