Tag: Project-Syndicate

ARAB SPRING – Arab Hope Springs Eternal (Carl Bildt, Project-Syndicate)

A decade after the start of the Arab Spring, the hope of securing democracy and human rights in the Arab world seems as far...

PANDEMIC/FOOD SECURITY – Long Live the Bio-Revolution (Michael Chui, Matthias Evers, Project-Syndicate)

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased threats to food security around the world, underscoring the need for innovation to make agriculture and aquaculture more resilient...

USA/CHINA – A Messy Financial Divorce for the US and China (George Magnus, Project-Syndicate)

Even as official financial decoupling progresses, US and other financial firms are – with China’s blessing – building asset management, securities, life insurance, fintech,...

USA – For a Post-Nationalist Biden (Kaushik Basu, Project-Syndicate)

America can lead a global turn away from nationalism if it actively engages with the world once again, and not only out of self-interest....

USA – The Stampede from Silicon Valley (John B. Taylor, Project-Syndicate)

By forcing knowledge workers to telecommute, the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare many of the unnecessary tax and regulatory burdens that tech firms face...

USA – Living and Dying in America in 2021 (Anne Case, Angus Deaton, Project-Syndicate)

In addition to killing at least 340,000 people in America alone, COVID-19 has accelerated economic trends that promise to undermine the lives and livelihoods...

CLIMATE ACTION – Climate Hope Is Back (Jules Kortenhorst, Andreas Kuhlmann, Project-Syndicate)

After withstanding four years of official US efforts to sabotage progress on combating climate change, the world is entering a promising new era of...

POOR COUNTRIES – Can Poor Countries Avoid a Vaccine Bidding War? (Anne O. Krueger, Project-Syndicate)

For all of the good news about the arrival of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines, the hard truth for the coming year is that...

EUROPE – The Dangerous Allure of Green Central Banking (Daniel Gros, Project-Syndicate)

Europe's central bankers have been insulated from political influence to pursue the very narrow mandate of price stability. Greening monetary policy might look attractive...

CHINA/USA – China’s Green Gambit (Minxin Pei, Project-Syndicate)

China's ambitious climate pledges have drawn praise the world over. But China will demand a high price for its contributions and can be expected...

BREXIT/EUROPE – Brexit and the Brussels Effect (Paul De Grauwe, Project-Syndicate)

After long, ill-tempered negotiations in which the UK government has tried to secure privileges for itself that it would not extend to the European...

AFRICA – Kick-Starting FDI in Africa (Carl Manlan, Efosa Ojomo, Project-Syndicate)

To help catalyze growth and tackle extreme poverty, African leaders must try to attract hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign direct investment. They...

ECB – The ECB’s New Stealth Mandate (Melvyn Krauss, Project-Syndicate)

Over the course of the pandemic, the European Central Bank has effectively adopted a new mandate, perhaps having concluded that its inflation target is...

USA – America’s Normalcy Delusion (Jorge G. Castañeda, Project-Syndicate)

After four years of President Donald Trump’s bald-faced lies, juvenile bullying, gratuitous cruelty, and perilous volatility, many voters were attracted by President-elect Joe Biden's...

PANDEMIC/SUPPLY CHAINS – Supply Chains and Demand (Richard Haass, Project-Syndicate)

The pandemic has shown that supply chains will need to be rethought, with more emphasis put on supplier diversification, domestic production, and stockpiling. The...

PANDEMIC PUBLIC DEBT – The Pandemic Public-Debt Dilemma (Michael Spence, Danny Leipziger, Project-Syndicate)

Much of the conventional wisdom about how governments should manage the COVID-19 economic fallout is perfectly appropriate for advanced economies, but dangerous elsewhere. Even...