Tag: Project-Syndicate

Should You Buy a Home in the US? (Robert J. Shiller, Project-Syndicate)

Even at currently elevated US home-price levels, buying still makes sense for those who are set on ownership. But buyers need to be sure...

What the US Recovery Is Missing (Laura Tyson, Lenny Mendonca, Project-Syndicate)

Although the US economy has recovered faster than many others around the world, persistent labor-market problems lurk beneath the surface. The deep class-, race-,...

ASEAN Countries Must Lead on Biodiversity (Tony La Viña, Project-Syndicate)

Southeast Asia is one of the world’s most biodiverse regions, and it is also highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Policymakers in...

Competition and Coexistence (Carl Bildt, Project-Syndicate)

Just when the world needs to come together to tackle the pandemic and mobilize a response to climate change, geopolitical tensions are rising, threatening...

Learning to Manage the China Threat (Shlomo Ben-Ami, Project-Syndicate)

While regime change in China is not impossible, it is not likely, and would almost certainly not lead to Western-style democracy if it occurred....

Accountability for Climate Catastrophes (Vinod Thomas, Project-Syndicate)

While the evidence linking greenhouse-gas emissions to climate change has been clear for some time, public engagement with the issue remains low. But showing...

The Taiwan Triangle (Richard Haass, Project-Syndicate)

The goal of US policy toward the island should be to reduce uncertainty about America’s intentions and its ability to make good on them,...

Ending Hunger Sustainably (Maximo Torero, Project-Syndicate)

Saving the planet does not have to come at the expense of feeding the poor, and vice versa. If governments can implement a series...

Trade and the Future of Food (Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Project-Syndicate)

World Food Day offers an important opportunity to recall how vital a role trade plays in shaping the production, availability, pricing, and quality of...

The Great Supply-Chain Massacre (Diane Coyle, Project-Syndicate)

It is unclear whether current widespread product shortages are merely a temporary disruption or evidence of a global production meltdown. But today’s supply shocks...

Will China Stand in the Way of Global Health? (Jim O’Neill, Project-Syndicate)

As the current president of the G20, Italy has taken up a proposal to create a Global Health Board, modeled on the highly successful...

Post-Pandemic Recovery Must Include the Care Economy (Mercedes D’Alessandro, Maria S. Floro, Project-Syndicate)

Unpaid labor like childcare and eldercare is not represented in economic models, although it makes up an important part of the economy. The pandemic...

Cautious Optimism on the Road to Glasgow (Kemal Derviş, Project-Syndicate)

With the crucial United Nations COP26 climate-change summit fast approaching, recent positive developments in green-energy technologies provide grounds for hope. But two caveats point...

What Developing Countries Need to Reach Net Zero (V. Shankar, Project-Syndicate)

One-size-fits-all policies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions will not work. Unless developed countries recognize the challenges confronting developing and emerging economies and take appropriate steps...

Saving Taiwan (Brahma Chellaney, Project-Syndicate)

Chinese President Xi Jinping seems eager for Taiwan to go the way of once-autonomous Tibet, which was gobbled up by Mao Zedong’s regime in...

The Pandora Papers and the Threat to Democracy (Katharina Pistor, Project-Syndicate)

In demonstrating how some of the world’s most powerful people hide their wealth, the Pandora Papers have exposed the details of a global system...