Preempting a Generative AI Monopoly
ChatGPT, the new artificial-intelligence chatbot developed by the San Francisco-based research laboratory OpenAI, has taken the world by storm. Already hailed as a milestone...
Global economy has yet to turn the corner
By Indermit Gill and M. Ayhan Kose
Special to The Times Kuwait
As 2024 begins, the outlook for the global economy seems to be improving. Major...
Can Ethics Be Taught?
Can taking a philosophy class, more specifically a class in practical ethics, lead students to act more ethically?
Teachers of practical ethics have an obvious...
Public Development Banks Can Help Nature
This week’s Finance in Common Summit will mark the first time that leaders of the world’s 450 public development banks (PDBs) come together to...
Aiding the Digital Revolution in Global Financial Inclusion
Around the world, high inflation, slow economic growth, and food shortages are hurting the poor the most. Coming on top of the unequal effects...
Coming Disruption of Animal Production
One day, we may look back on 2023 as the year when it became apparent that the gigantic industry of raising animals for food...
Let’s Get Real About Purpose
One year ago, BlackRock chairman and CEO Larry Fink wrote a letter to 500 CEOs asking them to rethink their sense of purpose. “To...
Disrupting climate change through innovation
Because it poses an existential threat to humanity, climate change represents the bad kind of disruption. But it can, and must, be fought with...
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...
Financing Green Infrastructure
To spur development and fight climate change, emerging-market and developing economies (EMDEs) will need huge amounts of investment in green infrastructure over the next...
