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A New Gulf Growth Model

LONDON – Over the last three years, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has signed agreements with leading multinational companies to build new manufacturing facilities in the Kingdom. Yet, despite sufficient oil wealth to entice global players, past attempts at this type of industrial policy did not bear fruit. Is

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

Energy Transition: The necessity for substantive dialogue

If such decentralized energy systems are developed, it will help achieve energy justice for marginalized communities in Karnali and 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

Confronting the Pandemic’s Toxic Political Legacy

Not only is Donald Trump back in the White House, but the far right is poised to occupy the Austrian

A House Gutted by Fire

Los Angeles has been burning for almost two weeks now, and the blame game is in full swing. From diversity,

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Putin’s War Is Fueling Russian Stagflation

The most critical shortage, however, is budget financing, as Russia’s last liquid reserves are likely to run out in the