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Andy Sumner is Professor of International Development at King’s College London and a non-resident senior research fellow at UNU-WIDER.

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  1. Why All Countries Should Contribute to Ending Global Poverty
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    Why All Countries Should Contribute to Ending Global Poverty

    Aug 26, 2020 Andy Sumner proposes a new financial aid commitment for rich and poor countries alike in the fight against poverty.

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    The Trussing Hour

    Harold James worries that major elections this year could bring more fiscal irresponsibility and financial instability.
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    The Path Not Taken in Trump’s Immunity Case

    Bruce Ackerman

    The US Supreme Court has now ruled that the Constitution entitles former President Donald Trump to "presumptive immunity" from criminal prosecution for actions related to his effort to overturn the November 2020 election. There was no reason to go that far – as one conservative justice rightly saw.

     argues that the US Supreme Court should have followed the approach defended by Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
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    Social Justice Is the Best Policy

    Gilbert F. Houngbo & Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva think the principle should be brought to the center of all global policymaking efforts.
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    How Humanity Lost Control

    J. Bradford DeLong praises a recent book that explains why big, complex social systems so often go off the rails.
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    Will Biden Spoil It All?

    Peter Singer thinks the US president should step aside, or, like other one-time heroes, risk tarnishing his legacy.
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    AI-Augmented Disinformation Is NATO’s New Battlefield

    Ylli Bajraktari highlights the urgent threat that cognitive warfare poses to the international rules-based order.
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    Policy Lessons From Recent Economic Crises

    Michael J. Boskin sees plenty of reasons to worry about how US policymakers will respond when the next one erupts.
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    The Bank of Japan’s Go-Slow Policy Normalization

    Takatoshi Ito predicts that the monetary authority will start scaling back government-bond purchases before its next rate hike.
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    An Easy Solution to the EU-China Tariff Dispute

    Yang Yao urges Chinese leaders not to retaliate against the bloc’s duties, which are unlikely to hinder EV sales there.

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