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Axel van Trotsenburg

Axel van Trotsenburg

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Axel van Trotsenburg is Senior Managing Director of Development Policy and Partnerships at the World Bank.

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  1. Prosperity Requires a Healthy Planet
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    Prosperity Requires a Healthy Planet

    Oct 28, 2024 Axel van Trotsenburg outlines how countries can foster inclusive growth while shielding people from the effects of climate change.

  2. A New Financing Pact for Climate-Vulnerable Countries
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    A New Financing Pact for Climate-Vulnerable Countries

    Sep 8, 2023 Ken Ofori-Atta & Axel van Trotsenburg outline immediate steps advanced economies could take to help Africa accelerate its green transition.

  3. Prevent the Next Food Crisis Now
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    Prevent the Next Food Crisis Now

    Jan 29, 2021 Mark Lowcock & Axel van Trotsenburg urge the international community to adopt an anticipatory approach to the growing hunger pandemic.

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    Solving India’s Industrialization Puzzle

    Rabah Arezki & Partha Sen ask why, unlike Bangladesh and Vietnam, manufacturing has not benefited from rising labor costs in China.
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    Ensuring Europe’s Supply of Critical Minerals

    Rüya Perincek & Andreas Goldthau call for coordinated funding, resource diplomacy, and secondary material partnerships to boost recycling.
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    Readying the Resistance, Again

    Laura Tyson & Lenny Mendonca

    The United States is not a monarchy, but a federal republic. States and cities controlled by Democrats represent half the country, and they can resist Donald Trump’s overreach by using the tools of progressive federalism, many of which were sharpened during his first administration.

     see Democrat-controlled states as a potential check on Donald Trump’s far-right agenda.
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    Russia’s Nostalgia Machine

    Nina L. Khrushcheva explores how the Kremlin relies on an idealized version of the past to comfort – and subdue – the public.
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    The Trade Shifts Redefining Economic Development

    Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg & Michele Ruta consider the long-term implications of three major trends that could reshape globalization.
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    Trump at the Gates

    Joschka Fischer urges Europeans to recognize that they are now on their own in an increasingly dangerous world.
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    The End of Progress?

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Though the United States has long led the world in advancing basic science and technology, it is hard to see how this can continue under President Donald Trump and the country’s ascendant oligarchy. America’s rejection of Enlightenment values will have dire consequences.

     predicts that Donald Trump’s second administration will be defined by its rejection of Enlightenment values.
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    China’s Trump Dilemma

    Yanis Varoufakis thinks the real choice facing Chinese leaders may be whether to challenge the dollar's hegemony head-on.
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    The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap

    Pascal Lamy, et al. explain how investments in African agri-food systems can advance many of the Sustainable Development Goals.

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