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Mekala Krishnan

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Mekala Krishnan is a partner at the McKinsey Global Institute.

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  1. Globalization Is Greener
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    Globalization Is Greener

    May 16, 2023 Olivia White & Mekala Krishnan explain why cross-border flows and supply chains are essential to achieving the world’s climate goals.

  2. The Anatomy of the Net-Zero Transition
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    The Anatomy of the Net-Zero Transition

    Mar 11, 2022 Mekala Krishnan describes the challenges, risks, and opportunities that will define the coming economic transformation.

  3. Emerging Economies Have a New Imperative
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    Emerging Economies Have a New Imperative

    Feb 11, 2021 Jonathan Woetzel & Mekala Krishnan explain why supply-chain resilience will remain a top priority after the pandemic has receded.

  4. Reducing Asia’s Climate Vulnerability
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    Reducing Asia’s Climate Vulnerability

    Feb 4, 2021 Mekala Krishnan & Yuito Yamada urge adoption of effective adaptation and mitigation measures to overcome global warming risks.

  5. Taking Climate Risk Seriously
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    Taking Climate Risk Seriously

    Jul 2, 2020 Hauke Engel & Mekala Krishnan urge firms and governments to consider the parallels between COVID-19 and the threat of global warming.

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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami

    America's president subscribes to a brand of isolationism that has waxed and waned throughout US history, but has its roots in the two-century-old Monroe Doctrine. This is bad news for nearly everyone, because it implies acceptance of a world order based on spheres of influence, as envisioned by China and Russia.

     hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
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    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill

    Financial markets and official economic indicators over the past few weeks give policymakers around the world plenty to contemplate. Was the recent spike in bond yields a sufficient warning to Donald Trump and his team, or will they still follow through with inflationary stimulus, tariff, and immigration policies?

     wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.
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    The TikTok Boomerang

    Angela Huyue Zhang thinks the US government's ban on the app has left it in an untenable position.
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    Turning the Financial Tide for Small Island States

    Maya Delaney & Aminath Shauna tout the potential of green and blue bonds to protect critical ecosystems and build economic resilience.
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    School Meals Provide Food for Thought – and Fuel for Development

    Gordon Brown & Kevin Watkins tout universal nutrition programs in lower-income countries to mitigate a lost decade for poor children.
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    A House Gutted by Fire

    Terry Lynn Karl blames the inferno now consuming Los Angeles County squarely on greenhouse-gas emissions.
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    False Economies

    William H. Janeway highlights the high cost of the single-minded focus on efficiency that has come to dominate the discipline.

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