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With emerging economies slowing, developed countries' middle classes being squeezed like never before, and policymakers seemingly incapable of coordinating meaningful solutions to global challenges, participants at this year’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos have a full agenda. Read what they have to say about global finance, development, technology, and growing inequality worldwide.

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  1. The Road to Car Safety

    The Road to Car Safety

    Jan 28, 2014 Carlos Ghosn describes what is needed to improve automobiles' safety, sustainability, and affordability.

  2. The Decline of Upward Mobility

    The Decline of Upward Mobility

    Jan 24, 2014 Richard Haass cautions against responses to growing inequality that merely shift wealth, rather than creating it.

  3. The Zero-Emissions Imperative
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    The Zero-Emissions Imperative

    Jan 24, 2014 Angel Gurría says that nothing short of a post-carbon economy by the second half of this century can stop catastrophic climate change.

  4. Rethinking Pharmaceutical Business Models

    Rethinking Pharmaceutical Business Models

    Jan 23, 2014 Joseph Jimenez describes how drug companies can meet the world's dramatically changing health-care needs.

  5. Japan’s New Dawn

    Japan’s New Dawn

    Jan 23, 2014 Abe Shinzō links economic recovery in Japan to improved prospects for global peace and prosperity.

  6. Europe’s Top-Down Myopia

    Europe’s Top-Down Myopia

    Jan 22, 2014 Katinka Barysch argues that the European Union's top-down approach to institutional reform seeks to solve problems that have largely been addressed already.

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    The US Economy’s Trust Deficit

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    Norway Is a Ukraine War Profiteer

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    Navigating the Risks of Digital Public Infrastructure

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    Services Are the New Road to Development

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    Russia Just Lost Its Great-Power Status

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    Twelve Questions for Philanthropists

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    PS Commentators’ Best Reads in 2024

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    The World Needs Ocean-Based Climate Solutions

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    The West Is Not Dying, but It Is Working on It

    Yanis Varoufakis argues that Western power is alive and well, but the lofty values that once sustained it have been abandoned.

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