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...
The Case for an Arabian Universal Basic Income
The notion of a government-provided universal basic income (UBI) has been gaining traction throughout the developed world. Although UBI policies face significant political and...
The Secret of Pakistan’s COVID-19 Success
When the novel coronavirus first arrived in Pakistan in late February, there was widespread concern about the country’s ability to manage the increased disease...
Protecting Child Workers During the Pandemic
It is already apparent that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will be uneven, with poorer countries bearing the brunt of the fallout. This...
The G20 Debt Plan Does Not Go Far Enough
The COVID-19 crisis has come at the worst possible time for humanity. The poorest countries were already struggling to meet their development goals in...
Crafting a Diplomacy-First US Foreign Policy
United States President-elect Joe Biden has made it clear that diplomacy will be at the center of his administration’s foreign policy. Biden has pledged...
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...
Reckoning with American Democracy’s Enemies Within
With Donald Trump and the Republican establishment refusing to accept defeat in the face of a clear election result, democracy in the United States...
Vaccine Apartheid
The American pharmaceutical company Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech have announced that the COVID-19 vaccine they are jointly developing was more than 90% effective in...
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...
