Tag: Project-Syndicate

(China/Africa) China’s Debt Grip on Africa (Paola Subacchi, Project-Syndicate)

Since the 2008 global financial crisis, China has steadily increased its direct lending to developing countries – often with draconian conditions attached. Debt moratoria during...

(Capitalism) Capitalism We Can Believe In (Laura Tyson, Larry Mendonca, Project-Syndicate)

President-elect Joe Biden’s call to “build back better” after the pandemic is an invitation to renovate America’s outdated neoliberal version of capitalism. The more...

(Digitization) How Companies Should Leverage Digitization (Dambisa Moyo, Project-Syndicate)

As the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the fragility of many business models, it has also intensified the race to adopt cutting-edge technologies. But adoption...

(USA) The Effort to Disqualify Trump Is Worth It (Eric Posner, Project-Syndicate)

By opening the door for Donald Trump's possible disqualification from future office-holding, a second impeachment would be justified, even if conviction and removal by...

(USA/China) Can America Lead Again? (Yuen Yuen Ang, Project-Syndicate)

The US president-elect has advanced a vision of America that is back in charge of the liberal international order. But while that would go...

(Paris Climate Agreement) No Time to Spare for the Paris Climate Promise (Mary Robinson, Project-Syndicate)

In the five years since the world came together to conclude the Paris climate agreement, the geopolitical environment has changed profoundly, and the disastrous...

(USA) Donald Trump’s Costly Legacy (Richard Haass, Project-Syndicate)

Donald Trump’s presidency has been a consequential one, but more for its destructive effects than for its achievements. The damage caused by repeated attacks...

(USA) What Next for the MAGA Insurrection? (J. Bradford DeLong, Project-Syndicate)

Having been fed a steady stream of lies by Donald Trump and right-wing media outlets like Fox News, many of those who stormed the...

(Brexit/Europe/USA) The Brexit Boon to Europe and the US (Melvyn Krauss, Project-Syndicate)

More than four years after the Brexit referendum, the United Kingdom has finally left the European Union, and the timing could not be better....

(USA) Remove and Ban Trump Now (Jan-Werner Mueller, Project-Syndicate)

Although it is a serious matter to deny individuals their basic civil rights, outgoing US President Donald Trump richly deserves such a punishment. For...

(USA) The Return of US Intelligence (Kent Harrington, Project-Syndicate)

For four years, the Trump administration has undermined the credibility and morale of the US intelligence community, leaving President-elect Joe Biden's national-security team with...

PANDEMIC/VACCINE – Globalizing the COVID Vaccine (Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Project-Syndicate)

In less than a year, the world has come together to develop effective COVID-19 vaccines and a multilateral platform for allocating them most efficiently...

USA – How Biden Can Restore Multilateralism Unilaterally (Joseph E. Stiglitz, Project-Syndicate)

After four years of the Trump administration undermining global governance arrangements, President-elect Joe Biden will certainly have his work cut out for him. Nonetheless,...

CHINA – China’s Pro-Monopoly Antitrust Crusade (Minxin Pei, Project-Syndicate)

China's leaders are probably right that reining in the private sector will strengthen their grip on power in the short term. But, in the...

EUROPE/CHINA – Europe and China’s Year-End Breakthrough (Jeffrey Sachs, Project-Syndicate)

With the completion of a major investment treaty between the European Union and China, the new year will begin on a promising footing. Now...

AFRICA – African Countries Need Not Fear Default (Moritz Kraemer, Project-Syndicate)

Many developing countries carry crushing debt burdens, but are reluctant to pursue much-needed restructuring, for fear of losing access to capital markets. This fear...