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

ACCRA – US President Donald Trump’s decision to gut USAID – effectively dismantling 42% of the global humanitarian-aid system and jeopardizing millions of lives – has reignited the debate over the effectiveness of foreign assistance. With many developing countries trapped in a seemingly inescapable cycle of aid dependency, it is increasingly clear that the dominant

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

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,