The Responsibility to Report
An unprecedented threat demands an unprecedented response. Rarely, if ever, have governments had to shift into crisis-management mode as quickly as they have in...
Limited Liability Is Causing Unlimited Harm
In a recent tweet, Olivier Blanchard, a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, wondered how we can “have so much political and...
Net-Zero at Davos
At its annual flagship meeting in Davos, Switzerland, this year, the World Economic Forum (WEF) called on companies from around the world to commit...
World economy at crossroads in new decade
At the start of a new decade, many commentators are understandably focused on the health of the global economy. GDP growth this decade most...
Addressing Africa’s Skills Mismatch
While much of the world struggles with rapid population aging, Africa is experiencing the opposite trend. With 60% of the continent’s population under the...
End of the Free-Market Paradigm
The 2020s will be the decade when the idea that economic problems can be ‘left to the market’ to solve is finally put to...
A World Without AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
As part of the United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development, the international community set itself the ambitious goal of eradicating AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria...
State and Technological Revolution
The following account should sound familiar. Over the course of decades, feats of innovation re-engineer society, diffuse across countries and regions, and fundamentally alter...
Growth could be Passé
It is clear: we are living beyond our planet’s limits. Unless we change something, the consequences will be dire. Should that something be our...
The Lives You Saved
A decade ago, I wrote The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty. This month, a fully revised Tenth Anniversary edition...
