The Myth of Welfare Dependency - Project Syndicate
Aug 9, 2019 · The Myth of Welfare Dependency. In most countries, rich and poor people alike worry that social programs for low-income households end up weakening work incentives and create an underclass of indigents. In fact, recent research suggests just the opposite: the longer families receive stable and predictable support, the better they and their ...
European Colonialism in Africa Is Alive - Project Syndicate
Jul 30, 2021 · PROVIDENCE/LONDON – Last year, as the Black Lives Matter movement was intensifying across the United States following Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s murder of George Floyd, Europe was facing its own battles over racial justice.
Disrupting Climate Change Through Innovation - Project Syndicate
Nov 8, 2019 · Sustainability Now. 1. Disrupting Climate Change Through Innovation. Nov 8, 2019Ambroise Fayolle. The only way to get ahead of a crisis as large as climate change is through groundbreaking technological innovation in clean energy and low-carbon technologies. And that, in turn, will require efforts to mitigate investment risks for private-sector ...
Slavoj Žižek - Project Syndicate
Nothing New on the Middle Eastern Front Ibrahim Hams/AFP via Getty Images Nothing New on the Middle Eastern Front. Oct 7, 2024 Slavoj Žižek sees developments in the year since October 7, 2023, as the logical realization of long-standing potentialities.. Putin’s Ukraine Magic Contributor/Getty Images Putin’s Ukraine Magic. Oct 2, 2024 Slavoj Žižek examines what the Kremlin’s strategy ...
Sustainability with Chinese Characteristics - Project Syndicate
Sep 23, 2019 · 6. Sustainability with Chinese Characteristics. Sep 23, 2019Stephen S. Roach. To its credit, China is focusing on sustainable development at a point when its per capita output is barely more than one-third the level in the so-called advanced economies. A relatively poor country has made a conscious choice to shift its focus from the quantity of ...
AI for Human Development - Project Syndicate
Jan 3, 2019 · AI for Human Development. Jan 3, 2019 Michael Chui and Martin Harrysson. Technologies powered by artificial intelligence are being applied to some of the world’s most challenging human-development issues. But while AI has considerable potential to serve the public good, key bottlenecks – from education to risk reduction – must be overcome.
Envisioning Governance 4.0 by Klaus Schwab - Project Syndicate
Jan 17, 2022 · 7. Envisioning Governance 4.0. Jan 17, 2022Klaus Schwab. When the COVID-19 pandemic ends, the world will need a new governance model that differs from its predecessors in several fundamental respects. In particular, while finance, economics, and business remain vitally important, they must serve society and nature – not the other way around.
Getting Serious About the SDGs - Project Syndicate
Sep 12, 2019 · Getting Serious About the SDGs. Sep 12, 2019 Jayati Ghosh. Since adopting the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, the “global community” has singularly failed to create the conditions needed to realize them. But by addressing three big problems in the international economic system, world leaders could yet help to put the SDGs back on track.
Time for a True Global Currency - Project Syndicate
Apr 5, 2019 · Time for a True Global Currency. Apr 5, 2019José Antonio Ocampo. The International Monetary Fund’s global reserve asset, the Special Drawing Right, is one of the most underused instruments of multilateral cooperation. Turning it into a true global currency would yield several benefits for the global economy and the international monetary system.
What Caused the Ukraine War? - Project Syndicate
Oct 4, 2022 · CAMBRIDGE – Russia’s war in Ukraine is the most disruptive conflict that Europe has seen since 1945. While many in the West see a war of choice by Russian President Vladimir Putin, he says that NATO’s 2008 decision in favor of eventual Ukrainian membership brought an existential threat to Russia’s borders, and still others trace the conflict back to the Cold War’s end and the failure ...