The Lives You Saved
A decade ago, I wrote The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty. This month, a fully revised Tenth Anniversary edition...
From Trade War to Subsidy WarFrom Trade War to Subsidy War
To the dismay of many economists, US President Joe Biden’s administration has retained most of its predecessor’s tariffs and trade barriers. In fact, contrary...
Honoring the Blue Berets
The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, 29 May, offers an opportunity for the global community to pay tribute to the uniformed and civilian...
Sri Lanka mourns its dead, will rise again
Last week the world joined Sri Lanka in mourning as it buried victims of the coordinated bomb-blasts that killed over 250 people and maimed...
Unleashing the Climate Market
Progress against climate change has long crept at a snail’s pace, and the costs of inaction are increasingly clear to see. Hardly a week...
Dilemmas of Deterrence
We live in a world where geopolitical stability relies largely on deterrence. But how can we prove that deterrence works?
Consider the ongoing war in...
An Open Letter to Joe Biden on International Corporate Taxation
Dear Mr. President,
The world has welcomed your election and commitment to restore diplomatic engagement with the international community to the center of US foreign...
Keeping the Global Focus on Low-Income Countries
Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the global economy is suffering its sharpest decline since the Great Depression. But while everybody is hurting, it is...
Squandering the Techno-Revolution
Public discussion of the effects of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) often focuses on the productivity benefits for companies and the economy, on the...
Harnessing the Digital Revolution for Sustainable Development
Financial digitalization — the digital revolution’s system-level transformation of the entire financial ecosystem — could catalyze global efforts to finance sustainable development. According to...
