Fully Replenishing the Green Climate Fund
Vera Songwe and Mahmoud Mohieldin
When the Green Climate Fund (GCF) was established a little over a decade ago, it was considered a potentially useful tool...
The Great Debt Conundrum
Anne O. Krueger
The exponential growth of international capital flows, predominantly in the form of debt, has been one of the great development successes of...
Protectionism Started the Geopolitical Fire
Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg
It has been puzzling to see many prominent economists decry the Trump administration’s tariffs as welfare-reducing protectionism, while approving of the Biden...
Tragedy Unfolding in the Poorest Countries
Indermit Gill and M. Ayhan Kose
The poorest countries are in desperate straits, and the rest of the world is looking the other way. Doing...
A Pact for People and Planet
By Anne-Marie Slaughter, Ilona Szabó, Jayati Ghosh, and Poonam Ghimire
Our collective future hinges on a transformative shift in our relationship with the planet. This...
A New Financing Pact for Climate-Vulnerable Countries
By Ken Ofori-Atta and Axel van Trotsenburg
Amid an escalating climate emergency and a global debt crisis, calls for a new “fit for climate” global...
Self-Driving Cars and AI Ethics
By Peter Singer and Tse Yip Fai
Special to The Times Kuwait
Last month, California regulators allowed two companies that operate self-driving cars to accept paying...
Democracy Must Prevail in the Sahel
By Josep Borrell
Some events are more memorable than others and serve as landmarks for a term in office. I will always remember attending a...
Climate Action Lessons from COVID-19
By Ifeanyi M. Nsofor
It is official: July was the hottest month on record. Global warming is happening, and its costs continue to mount. The...
Importance of First Hundred Days in Office
After years of anxiety about democratic backsliding, the next few months will tell us a lot about the state of popular government around the...
