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Financial Inclusion Must Reach the Last Billion

WASHINGTON, DC – At its most basic level, the goal of economic development is to eradicate poverty. By that metric, significant progress has been made: the number of people living in extreme poverty fell from 1.9 billion in 1990 to an estimated 615 million today, largely owing to supercharged economic growth in the world’s

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

The Key to Universal Energy Access Is Green

By fostering public-private partnerships and harnessing the transformative potential of DRE technologies, we can make universal energy access a reality

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

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