Tag: Project-Syndicate

Organized Labor After COVID (Project-Syndicate)

PRANAB BARDHAN Union membership was already declining steadily before the pandemic, and the future of organized labor as a political and economic force remains in...

Israel/Palestine – Apartheid in the Holy Land (Project-Syndicate)

FAWAZ A. GERGES In a landmark report, Human Rights Watch has concluded that the nearly seven million Palestinians in the occupied territories and Israel itself...

China – The Two Sides of Chinese GDP (Project-Syndicate)

NANCY QIAN Many economists care more about China’s per capita GDP, or income per person, than the aggregate measure. The key takeaway is that China...

Africa – Reimagining Education for All in Africa (Project-Syndicate)

CONNIE NSHEMEREIRWE At current rates, about 20% of children in Sub-Saharan Africa will still be excluded from schooling in 2030. But, besides seeking to expand...

Morals and the Vaccine Market (Projecty-Syndicate)

KAUSHIK BASU The glaring global inequity in access to COVID-19 vaccines is both an intellectual and moral failure. The pandemic is a clarion call to...

Europe – The Brussels Effect on Sustainable Finance (Project-Syndicate)

KALIN ANEV JANSE, ANU BRADFORD The EU's new sustainable finance taxonomy will go a long way toward strengthening Europe's market for green investment. And, as with...

India – India’s COVID Tsunami (Project-Syndicate)

SHASHI THAROOR The number of infections in India surpassed 17 million in recent days, and the official death toll now exceeds 190,000. How did everything...

Russia – Putin’s Sound and Fury (Project-Syndicate)

SŁAWOMIR SIERAKOWSKI Although Vladimir Putin's annual state-of-the-union addresses are always occasions for bluster and saber-rattling, this year's over-the-top display fell into a category of its...

Russia – Russia’s Bear Economy (Project-Syndicate)

ANDERS ÅSLUND Russians today are chagrined to learn that they are worse off than Romanians and Turks. Although President Vladimir Putin would like them to...

Powering Sustainable Food Systems (Project-Syndicate)

AGNES KALIBATA, KRISTINA SKIERKA As world leaders mark Earth Day at a climate summit hosted by US President Joe Biden, they must remember what the largest...

USA – G.I. Joe Trotsky (Project-Syndicate)

NINA L. KHRUSHCHEVA As far as anyone can tell, the US military is not on the verge of an internal breakdown, let alone primed to...

The Changing Climate of Central Banking (Project-Syndicate)

ISABELLE MATEOS Y LAGO In the space of just a few years, the idea that central banks should incorporate climate considerations into their policies has...

Biden’s Climate Opportunity in Latin America (Project-Syndicate)

GUY EDWARDS, BENJAMIN N. GEDAN As Latin America inches toward a post-pandemic recovery, it is vital that the region’s governments align their rebuilding strategies with their...

President Biden, Support a People’s Vaccine (Project-Syndicate)

Over the past year, the world witnessed unprecedentedly rapid development of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines, largely owing to US public investment. And now...

China – China Still Needs Expansionary Economic Policy (Project-Syndicate)

YU YONGDING To consolidate its post-pandemic growth momentum in 2021, China should not be in a rush to exit from expansionary fiscal and monetary policy....

India – Modi’s War on the Press (Project-Syndicate)

SHASHI THAROOR Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together a free society. If Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to de-institutionalize what...