“History teaches us that the next pandemic is a matter of when, not if,” warned World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus earlier this year.
Rather than focusing on international conferences like COP, we should direct our energies towards negotiating agreements that can achieve progress in narrow, but crucial, economic sectors.
Rarely have the shortcomings of world leaders and existing institutional arrangements been so glaringly obvious.
Should we be surprised that so many people view the growing concentration of wealth with suspicion, or that they believe the system is rigged?
US President Joe Biden’s administration should be commended for its open rejection of two core neoliberal assumptions.
The aftershocks of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), while seemingly fading, are still reverberating around the world.
We desperately need free markets, but that means, above all, markets that are free from the stranglehold of monopoly and monopsony.
Anyone with any faith in the market economy knew that the supply issues would be resolved eventually; but no one could possibly know when.
Politically, the G7 and like-minded countries around the world have adopted a war footing to stop Russian aggression.
The United States appears to have entered a new cold war with both China and Russia.
The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) first meeting in more than two years was markedly different from the many previous Davos conferences.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is showing promising signs of changing with the times.
Although Covid-19 has been hard on everyone, it has not been an “equal opportunity” disease.
The World Trade Organization was supposed to meet this week to consider a proposal that has been languishing for the past year:
Moves are afoot to replace or at least greatly weaken Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) since 2019.
The world has finally awoken to the existential imperative of securing a rapid transition to a green economy.
There is so much to celebrate with the new year. The arrival of safe, effective Covid-19 vaccines means that there is light at the end of the pandemic tunnel (though the next few months will be horrific). Equally important, America’s mendacious, incompetent, mean-spirited president will be replaced by his polar opposite: a man of decency, honesty, and professionalism.
This year marked the 50th anniversary of the World Economic Forum’s flagship meeting of the world’s business and political elites in Davos, Switzerland. Much has changed since my first Davos in 1995.
