The birth of the United Nations With the entry of the United States into the war in December 1941 efforts were set in motion for…
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Last week, on the eve of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I was contacted by a radio station in Moscow. The journalist, who had interviewed…
Women under the Taliban. The plight of Afghan women during the period 1996-2001, when the Taliban were last in power in Afghanistan, has been well…
The COVID-19 crisis is the largest shock to the global economy since the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The impact has been highly destabilising…
The economic marginalization of women and ethnic, religious, and other minorities is a pervasive problem in virtually every country in the world. There is compelling…
This debate about UBI has recently come alive as governments have moved to deal with the asymmetric effects of COVID-19, with vulnerable groups being particularly…
Andreas Bummel and Augusto Lopez-Claros1 More than half a century ago UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld said that “the United Nations was not created to bring…
The problem In a recent article in the journal Foreign Affairs Nobel-laurate William Nordhaus argues that although there is broad recognition that climate change is…
An important question COVID-19 has shown, particularly in the emerging markets and developing world, a whole range of vulnerabilities in the economies of these countries.…
What have we done so far and what are some of the early lessons? Some thoughts on these two vital questions follow. The crisis now…