Tag: Project-Syndicate

USA – Rebuilding Social Trust in Post-COVID America (Project-Syndicate)

NANCY QIAN Lack of trust has been a critical barrier to US economic policy in recent years, because the solutions to the country's main problems...

The Mother of News Stories (Project-Syndicate)

JULES KORTENHORST An issue as consequential as climate change demands far more independent reporting than it is currently receiving. Without hard-hitting, accurate, and compelling reporting...

USA – Why Would Anyone Want to be President? (Project-Syndicate)

ELIZABETH DREW US President Joe Biden appears to be making an early bid for greatness – since taking office, he has tackled the COVID-19 pandemic...

(Global Financing/Pandemic) Global Financing to End the Pandemic (Project-Syndicate)

JEFFREY D. SACHS A new allocation of up to $650 billion worth of the IMF’s reserve asset, special drawing rights, would ensure that governments have...

(USA/Afghanistan) Global Terror and the Taliban’s Return (Project-Syndicate)

BRAHMA CHELLANEY Far from offering America a face-saving exit from a 20-year war, a complete US military withdrawal from Afghanistan will make it an accomplice...

(Post Pandemic) The Post-Pandemic Safety Net (Project-Syndicate)

JORGE G. CASTAÑEDA The coronavirus pandemic has sparked a rebirth of Keynesianism and the welfare state in Western Europe, Japan, Canada, and parts of Latin...

(Democracy) All Apologies for Democracy (Project-Syndicate)

HAROLD JAMES Recent mistakes by elected governments underscore the unique difficulties that democracies face when dealing with a problem as large and complex as a...

(USA) America’s Third Reconstruction (Project-Syndicate)

JEFFREY D. SACHS Republican-controlled state legislatures across the US are enacting new restrictions on voter participation that target non-whites. Since the Civil War, the white...

(Innovation/Technology/Open Land Data System) The Case for Open Land-Data Systems (Project-Syndicate)

TIM HANSTAD In countries where accurate, accessible land records are not maintained, it is the marginalized and vulnerable who are the worst affected by corruption...

(Africa) Navigating the “New Normal” for African Schools (Project-Syndicate)

HANAN MORSY The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the education of millions of students in Africa, with girls, the poor, and children in rural areas facing...

(Development Economics) The Absent Voices of Development Economics (Project-Syndicate)

ARVIND SUBRAMANIAN, DEVESH KAPUR Development economics focuses on improving the well-being of billions of people in low-income countries, but the Global South is severely underrepresented in...

(Germany) The Return of German Politics (Project-Syndicate)

JOSCHKA FISCHER After 16 years of Angela Merkel's chancellorship, it has become difficult for Germans to imagine a government led by anyone else. But two...

(Europe) Antifragile Europe (Project-Syndicate, Brookings)

Javier Solana The word “resilience” has been used a dizzying number of times since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared a year ago. Most interpret resilience...

(Europe/Digital) Why Europe’s Digital Decade Matters (Project-Syndicate)

MARGRETHE VESTAGER, JOSEP BORRELL Now that digitalization has become the driving force of the modern economy and even a critical factor in today's geopolitics, there is...

(Global Economy) Build Back Equal (Project-Syndicate)

MARÍA FERNANDA ESPINOSA Creating an economy that works for everyone is not just a matter of empowering those who have been “left behind” by globalization....

(Pandemic/Recovery) Fiscal Follies in the COVID Recovery (Project-Syndicate)

DANIEL GROS With governments in advanced economies continuing to keep the fiscal taps open, it is worth considering whether additional stimulus is really what the...