Tag: Project-Syndicate

The Mutation of Vaccine Apartheid (Safura Abdool Karim, Project-Syndicate)

While people in many parts of the world have begun receiving booster shots against COVID-19, millions of residents in low-income countries are still waiting...

Clouds Over 2022 (Nouriel Roubini, Project-Syndicate)

Although major economies and markets fared well in 2021 despite all of the uncertainties surrounding new variants of the coronavirus, 2022 will bring new...

Is Strategic Cooperation with China Possible? (Michael Spence, Project-Syndicate)

From climate change and rising inequality to the pandemic and the digital revolution, there is ample common ground for rival powers to pursue mutually...

The Euro at 20 (Jean Pisani-Ferry, Project-Syndicate)

The euro’s advocates hoped that the single currency would deliver economic and financial integration, policy convergence, political amalgamation, and global influence. While these predictions...

Can Europe Avert a US-China War? (Robert Williams, Moritz Rudolf, Project-Syndicate)

Strategists are currently scrambling to draw lessons from history and devise an approach that enables the US and China to compete without triggering a...

What the US Misunderstands About Russia (Nina L. Khrushcheva, Project-Syndicate)

In recent decades, the US and Europe have consistently dismissed Russia's security concerns relating to its former territories, and portrayed its resistance to NATO’s...

Break the Vaccine Monopolies Now (Winnie Byanyima, Project-Syndicate)

During the HIV/AIDS epidemic a generation ago, African countries were priced out of lifesaving drugs by pharmaceutical firms that prioritized profits over lives. If...

Joe Biden in a Multipolar World (Andrew Sheng, Xiao Geng, Project-Syndicate)

Upon taking office, US President Joe Biden had an opportunity to engineer a reset in international relations, engaging constructively with China and Russia to...

How Erdonomics Sank Turkey (Anne O. Krueger, Project-Syndicate)

Turkey’s economy is in crisis. Inflation is high and rising, economic growth is stalling, foreign-exchange reserves have plummeted, many goods are in short supply or...

The US Must Not Make Empty Threats (Jeffrey Frankel, Project-Syndicate)

As Russia masses troops along its border with Ukraine, fears of an invasion are mounting. The United States has warned that Russia would pay...

Fixing Global Trade Finance (John W.H. Denton, Victor K. Fung, Bob Sternfels, Marcus Wallenberg, Project-Syndicate)

Goods and services move around the world via critical infrastructure: roads, ports, rail networks, shipping routes, and data servers. The $5.2 trillion global trade...

The Key to the COVID-Powered Challenges of 2022 (Ngaire Woods, Project-Syndicate)

After a year in which people longed to get back to “normal,” it is now clear that COVID-19 will not make this possible. The...

Putin’s Ukraine Formula (Carl Bildt, Project-Syndicate)

As reports pile up about Russia’s military mobilization on Ukraine’s border and the Kremlin’s diplomatic demands, questions abound. What is going on? What will...

East Asia’s Squid Game Economies (Keun Lee, Project-Syndicate)

While South Korea and Japan’s convergence toward Anglo-Saxon capitalism may appear shocking, the data do not lie. But by adopting the right measures, policymakers...

Democracy’s Vital Tasks (Javier Solana, Project-Syndicate)

Rather than emphasizing their ideological differences with other countries, democracies should instead recognize their responsibility to themselves and the world. In particular, free societies...

The Danger of Digitalizing Aid (Becky Faith, Project-Syndicate)

The humanitarian aid sector faces growing pressure to innovate and adopt digital technologies, reflecting the urgent need to make such assistance more effective. But...