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Austerity Budgets Are a Gift to Populists

SYDNEY: Time after time, austerity budgets have provided populist political parties with political openings. In the United Kingdom, France, Poland, and elsewhere, populists have used austerity budget cuts to browbeat “fiscally responsible” governments. Because of this dynamic, it is hard to believe that Elon Musk thought that US President Donald

A Make-or-Break Moment for Global Debt Reform

On June 30, world leaders will gather in Seville, Spain, for the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4).

The Delicate Art of Natural-Resource Diplomacy

US President Donald Trump has also talked of acquiring Greenland partly because of its potential mineral wealth, while his administration

What It Means to Build Local AI

But even before OpenAI’s US competitors (Google and Anthropic) released their own LLMs the following year, Southeast Asian developers had

The Attrition of Russia

Putin’s invasion lasts as long as Leonid Brezhnev’s Soviet-Afghan War, Russian casualties will be over 55 times greater – and

Doval, Wang Yi review recent developments in India-China ties

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval held a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing on Tuesday and reviewed

Norway’s Responsibility to Future Generations

The Panel was established by seven civil-society organizations – WWF Norway, Save the Children Norway, Caritas Norway, Framtiden i våre hender (The

The “Washington Effect” Could Decide the AI Race

The Trump administration isn’t favoring red states over blue, or cooperating with European allies to beat China. Instead, it is

Only Democracy Can End Iran’s Nuclear Threat

The regime had plenty of warning signs about its unprecedented weakness at home and isolation in the region. There was

Central Asia’s New Playbook

Though they are not turning their backs on Russia, they are now embracing new opportunities to increase their economic resilience