Planning for a Future Beyond 1.5°C

By Simon Zadek Special to THE TIMES KUWAIT The negotiators and activists preparing to attend the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai are...

Limited Liability Is Causing Unlimited Harm

In a recent tweet, Olivier Blanchard, a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, wondered how we can “have so much political and...

A Mixed Economic Bag in 2019

After the synchronized global economic expansion of 2017 came the asynchronous growth of 2018, when most countries other than the United States started to...

Measuring Poverty Properly

The 2019 Oscar-winning film Parasite attracted a global audience for its arresting portrayal of South Korea’s stark income inequality. The movie’s rendering of a...

Clouds Over 2022

NOURIEL ROUBINI Despite dips and disruptions from new variants of COVID-19, 2021 turned out to be a relatively positive year for economies and markets in...

The Multilateral Development Banks the World Needs

The world is literally on fire this summer. Experts estimate that another COVID-level public health threat is likely to emerge in the next generation....

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...

Erosion of US democracy, worrying for world

The anniversary of the 6 January, 2021, attack on the US Capitol has come and gone, and many Americans are deeply depressed that the...

Aviation Should Embrace Carbon Taxation

Recent catastrophic floods in Germany and China have once again made clear the terrible global threat posed by climate change. In response, we must...

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...

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