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Why China’s Marriage Crisis Matters

MADISON, WISCONSIN – New marriages in China reportedly plummeted by one-fifth last year, implying that the official number of births will likely fall from 9.54 million in 2024 to 7.3- 7.8 million in 2025. Thus, while China represents 17.2% of the global population, it will account for less than 6% of births – comparable to Nigeria. Moreover, China’s

Financial Inclusion Must Reach the Last Billion

The progress made over the past decade proves that financial inclusion can be achieved with the right mix of innovation,

Trump’s War on Foreign Aid and the Rise of Transactional…

Activists celebrating the potential emergence of a post-imperial, agency-driven, multipolar aid system would do well to remember that economic progress

Canada Must Learn From the Green Backlash

As Canadians prepare to elect a new government, the rapid deterioration in relations with the United States will be front

A New Gulf Growth Model

Over the last three years, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has signed agreements with leading multinational companies to build

AI Will Not Supercharge GDP Growth

For good or ill – or merely as an enabler of ever more intense zero-sum competition – AI will have

Trump’s Cultural Revolution

Trump may lack Mao’s skills as a writer and theorist, but he possesses the same animal instinct to confound opponents

Will We Squander the AI Opportunity?

PARIS – I was fortunate to participate in the recent AI Action Summit in Paris, where many discussions emphasized the need to

Normalizing the Normalization of the Far Right

With only a few weeks to go before the federal election on February 23, Germany experienced a political earthquake. For the

Green Free Trade in a Protectionist Age

As incentives go, CBAM amounts to a “stick,” which punishes developing countries for not sacrificing domestic growth and development in