Tag: Project-Syndicate

Green Business After COP26 (Johan Rockström, Tobias Raffel, Project-Syndicate)

What is next on the global climate agenda? This year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow certainly did not fail, but nor...

The New Franco-Italian Alliance in Europe (Melvyn B. Krauss, Project-Syndicate)

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and French President Emmanuel Macron are on track to sign a bilateral accord – the so-called Quirinale Treaty named after the Roman palace – designed...

Digitalizing Africa’s Mines (Landry Signé, Project-Syndicate)

Mineral resources are a critical source of revenue for Africa. In 2019, minerals and fossil fuels accounted for more than a third of exports from at...

Southeast Asia’s Migrant Labor Dilemma (M. Niaz Asadullah, Project-Syndicate)

COVID-19 has disrupted labor markets around the world, causing a global manpower shortage. Lockdowns in the early months of the pandemic triggered an exodus of millions...

Rebuilding the Infrastructure of Sino-American Relations (Minghao Zhao, Project-Syndicate)

US President Joe Biden has been basking in the glow of his $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, which he signed into law on November 15. But...

Whipping Up America’s Inflation Bogeyman (James K. Galbraith, Project-Syndicate)

The headline chosen for Harvard economist Jason Furman’s November 15 commentary in the Wall Street Journal was both apt and sad. It was apt, because it repurposed then-President Gerald Ford’s...

Beware of Japan’s “New Capitalism” (Takatoshi Ito, Project-Syndicate)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida survived the general election on October 31, which came just weeks after his arrival in office as the new leader of...

Rich Countries’ Double Standards on Taxation (José Antonio Ocampo, Project-Syndicate)

The last two years have thrown into sharp relief the structural injustices that underpin the global economy. As the COVID-19 pandemic drove an estimated 88-115...

The Smart Climate Money Is on Women (Marjut Falkstedt, Project-Syndicate)

Women account for 43% of the agricultural labor force in developing countries, but account for only about 7% of investment in the sector. According to the Food and...

Escaping Bibi’s Shadow (Shalom Lipner, Project-Syndicate)

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett returned from this month’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) feeling buoyant. Hobnobbing with world leaders in Scotland lent...

Fixing Climate Finance (Jeffrey D. Sachs, Project-Syndicate)

The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26) fell far short of what is needed for a safe planet, owing mainly to the...

A Capital-Markets Union Is the Key to Greening Europe (Christian Sewing, Werner Hoyer, Project-Syndicate)

Jean Monnet, an architect of the European Union, once said that European unity “will be forged in crises, and will be the sum of the solutions...

A Strategic Compass for Europe (Josep Borrell, Project-Syndicate)

A compass helps one find one’s way, and the “Strategic Compass” that I have drafted at the behest of the European Council will serve...

The Rise of Intangible Capitalism (Eric Hazan, Jonathan Haskel, Stian Westlake, Project-Syndicate)

In a 2014 book, the Nobel laureate economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald argued that the most important societal endowment is the ability to learn....

The Narco-Terrorist Taliban (Brahma Chellaney, Project-Syndicate)

The strategic folly of US President Joe Biden’s Afghan policy has been laid bare in recent weeks. First, the country came back under the control of...

Ending the Permanent Respiratory Disease Pandemic (Leith Greenslade, Project-Syndicate)

COVID-19 has exposed the limited ability of health systems around the world to cope with a pandemic of respiratory infection. With the official death count from...