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Beata Javorcik

Beata Javorcik

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Beata Javorcik, Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, is Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and a fellow of All Souls College.

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  1. The Great Fragmentation
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    The Great Fragmentation

    Dec 11, 2023 Beata Javorcik thinks efforts to block the Chinese economy’s access to key technologies risks doing more harm than good.

  2. The Eurasian Leaks in the West’s Russia Sanctions
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    The Eurasian Leaks in the West’s Russia Sanctions

    May 9, 2023 Beata Javorcik points to data suggesting how exports of restricted goods are circumventing official barriers.

  3. The Fog of Waronomics
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    The Fog of Waronomics

    Dec 12, 2022 Beata Javorcik shows why even emergency economic policies should be assessed in terms of their longer-term effects.

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    Making Biodiversity Credits Work

    Almir Narayamoga Suruí & Simon Zadek suggest how to realize the potential of this innovative mechanism for financing nature conservation.
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    Polish Democracy’s Winter of Discontent

    Sławomir Sierakowski explains why enthusiasm for the country’s ruling coalition has waned over the past year.
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    What Remote Work Can Do for Global Development

    Charles Ferguson points out that the decoupling of economic activity from geographic location has only just begun.
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    Saving Democracy from Itself

    Slavoj Žižek applauds French President Emmanuel Macron’s maneuvering to keep the far right at bay.
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    First Trump Came for the Immigrants

    Nina L. Khrushcheva warns that mass deportations will carry high costs, not just for the economy, but for America’s soul.
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    Will the IMF Survive to 100?

    Paulo Nogueira Batista, Jr. & Robert H. Wade

    The World Trade Organization's precipitous decline into irrelevance should serve as a warning to the International Monetary Fund's shareholder governments, its management, and everyone who values multilateral economic cooperation. In a rapidly changing world, global institutions must reform or die.

    propose incremental changes to keep developing and emerging economies on board and engaged.
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    European Security Cannot Be Found in the Past

    Friedrich Merz

    The old Europe of the Cold War sought comfort in the past and confidence in the solitary US leadership that defined the era. Unfortunately, when it comes to its own security, Europe seemingly remains in a time warp, stuck somewhere before 1989.

    laments that nostalgia for US leadership unites a continent that must define the decisive action needed now.
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    The Biodiversity Crisis Is a Security Crisis

    Hailemariam Desalegn urges governments to recognize that the degradation of ecosystems poses a major threat to global stability.
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    The US Election and the Crisis of Whiteness

    Edoardo Campanella sees long-term demographic trends driving the country’s increasingly divisive politics.

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