Saving Local News
The COVID-19 crisis has confirmed, yet again, the importance of broad access to clear, reliable, and accurate information. Throughout the pandemic, people all over...
Carbon Pricing Now
US President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration comes just a month after the fifth anniversary of the Paris climate agreement, auguring long-overdue progress in the global...
Keeping the Global Focus on Low-Income Countries
Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the global economy is suffering its sharpest decline since the Great Depression. But while everybody is hurting, it is...
Public Development Banks Can Help Nature
This week’s Finance in Common Summit will mark the first time that leaders of the world’s 450 public development banks (PDBs) come together to...
The Market’s Best of All Possible Worlds
Even though uncertainty about the outcome of the US presidential election is likely to drag on, the stock market has been rallying. Provided that...
Inequality and its Discontents
Inequality has been seizing ever more of the public’s attention in recent years, reflected everywhere from papal encyclicals and economic tomes by French socialists...
A letter to the international community
We write to call for urgent action to address the global education emergency triggered by COVID-19. With more than one billion children still out...
Why Zoom cannot save the world
Before COVID-19, spending on business travel totaled $1.5 trillion a year (about 1.7% of world GDP). Now it is down to a trickle, as...
What Will COVID-19 Do to Banking?
The COVID-19 crisis has revealed banks to be not part of the problem for a change, but part of the solution. They have so...
What caused the COVID-19 testing deficit?
The United States is the world’s richest country, and home to ten of the 20 largest diagnostics companies. And yet, it not only has...
