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Angel Gurría

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Angel Gurría, a former secretary of foreign affairs (1994-97) and secretary of finance (1998-2000) of Mexico, is a former secretary-general of the OECD. 

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  1. New Business Models for a New Future
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    New Business Models for a New Future

    Sep 20, 2021 Angel Gurría explains why public-private collaboration is needed to change how business is done.

  2. Food Security Rests on Trade
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    Food Security Rests on Trade

    Nov 19, 2018 Angel Gurría & José Graziano da Silva warn that without rules-based global trade, the threat of hunger and malnutrition in some regions will grow.

  3. Multilateralism Is the Only Way Forward
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    Multilateralism Is the Only Way Forward

    May 28, 2018 Angel Gurría calls for updating the current model of international cooperation to address current and future challenges.

  4. We Should Not Be Afraid
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    We Should Not Be Afraid

    Sep 22, 2015 Angel Gurría argues that the continent's leaders have no reason to fear the rising flood of refugees.

  5. The Long-Term Investment Challenge
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    The Long-Term Investment Challenge

    Jun 10, 2015 Angel Gurría believes that an extended global economic slump, though inevitable, can be mitigated.

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    Is the Loss and Damage Fund Becoming an Empty Promise?

    Liane Schalatek warns that rich countries are once again shirking their responsibility to provide adequate climate finance.
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    How Global Public Investment Should Work

    Mariana Mazzucato & Jonathan Glennie propose a new model to unlock financing for action on climate change, biodiversity loss, and other issues.
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    COP29 Must Deliver the Goods

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    Geopolitical turmoil must not be allowed to distract global decision-makers from the urgent imperative of tackling climate change. There is no excuse for letting COP29 conclude without delivering ambitious, credible financing commitments to support climate action – including the clean-energy transition – in developing economies.

     hopes that geopolitical uncertainty will not thwart ambitious, credible climate-finance commitments.
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    Interspecies Money Is Here

    Nils Gilman & Mutesi Rusagara look beyond the first ever payments to animals and see a new model for human-wildlife economic collaboration.
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    A Trump Boom?

    Michael R. Strain thinks the president-elect’s economic policies could be wildly successful if he avoids his worst impulses.
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    Nicholas Agar on Elon Musk, AI, the futurism industry, and more

    Nicholas Agar urges us not to put too much stock in Musk-style “Mars-shots,” describes how the humanities needs to evolve in our time of disorienting change, suggests that humanists might soon get bored with artificial intelligence, and more.
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    Azerbaijan Greenwashes Authoritarianism at COP29

    Arzu Geybulla argues that the host country’s centralized dynastic regime is utterly incapable of meeting climate targets.
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    Global Tensions Over China’s Overcapacity Will Rise Under Trump

    Brendan Kelly considers the economic and geopolitical implications of the country’s controversial industrial strategy.
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    Trump Won, but Trumpism Did Not

    Bruce Ackerman thinks the president-elect’s agenda will falter as many congressional Republicans eye the midterm elections.

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