Commentary
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Commentary
R.I.P. Chinese Exceptionalism?
NEW DELHI – From Argentina to Turkey and from South Africa to Indonesia, emerging markets are once again being roiled…
Read More » The Perils of Public Media Funding
BUDAPEST – Hungary’s state media corporation, MTVA, operated last year with a budget of roughly $309 million, most of it…
Read More »The Making of Lehman Brothers II
WASHINGTON, DC – Last week, with some fanfare, the US Treasury Department released a report on what to do about…
Read More »Improving the Sustainability of Development Finance
WASHINGTON, DC – To achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, trillions of dollars in state spending, investment,…
Read More »The Cancer Threat to Africa’s Future
CHICAGO – One of the most pressing public-health challenges in Africa today is also one of the least reported: cancer,…
Read More »The Fed Should Be Careful What It Wishes For
CAMBRIDGE – Empirical relationships in economics are sufficiently fragile that there is even a “law” about their failure. As British…
Read More »Africa’s Year of Opportunity
GENEVA – We are still near the start of 2018, and already it feels like tension and disorder will be…
Read More »When Fighting Fake News Aids Censorship
WASHINGTON, DC – Many media analysts have rightly identified the dangers posed by “fake news,” but often overlook what the…
Read More »Working Toward the Next Economic Paradigm
LAGUNA BEACH – For decades, the Western world put its faith in a well-defined and broadly accepted economic paradigm with…
Read More »The Future of Fish Farming
NEW HAVEN – Demand for seafood is skyrocketing, and will continue to rise throughout this century. The only way to…
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