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David Miliband

David Miliband

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David Miliband, a former British foreign secretary and member of the World Health Organization Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, is CEO of the International Rescue Committee.

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  1. Where Humanitarianism and Environmentalism Meet
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    Where Humanitarianism and Environmentalism Meet

    Sep 12, 2022 David Miliband explains why advocacy for people and for the environment should be more closely integrated.

  2. Fixing the Broken Pandemic Financing System
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    Fixing the Broken Pandemic Financing System

    Jun 9, 2021 David Miliband, et al. propose a single facility to fund both general preparedness and rapid responses to future outbreaks.

  3. The Death Toll of a Dying Order
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    The Death Toll of a Dying Order

    Feb 18, 2015 David Miliband reflects on the widespread state failure that has fueled humanitarian crises worldwide.

  4. Trouble Amid Plenty in Emerging Africa
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    Trouble Amid Plenty in Emerging Africa

    Aug 13, 2014 David Miliband shows why humanitarian issues cannot be divorced from economic development.

  5. Syria’s Humanitarian Lifelines
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    Syria’s Humanitarian Lifelines

    Jun 10, 2014 Jan Egeland & David Miliband on why policy toward Syria must enter a new phase of intensity and focus.

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    Putin and Kim’s Cartoon Summit

    Nina L. Khrushcheva thinks that Russia's recent meeting with North Korea was intended primarily as a warning to the South.
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    Saudi Arabia’s New Nationalism

    Bernard Haykel explains the reasoning behind the Kingdom's ongoing domestic- and foreign-policy transformation.
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    The Green Growth Mindset

    Gernot Wagner sees doctrinaire debates about capitalism as irrelevant or even deleterious to the decarbonization effort.
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    Africa Is the Future of Multilateralism

    Mark Malloch-Brown explains why the continent should be at the forefront of efforts to bring about international reforms.
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    A Chinese Bubble Long in the Making

    Yi Fuxian

    The Chinese government is very good at covering up small problems, but these often pile up into much bigger ones that can no longer be ignored. The current real-estate bubble is a case in point, casting serious doubts not just on the wisdom of past policies but also on China's long-term economic future.

    traces the long roots of the country's mounting economic and financial problems.
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    Industrial Policy Is Back

    From semiconductors to electric vehicles, governments are identifying the strategic industries of the future and intervening to support them – abandoning decades of neoliberal orthodoxy in the process. Are industrial policies the key to tackling twenty-first-century economic challenges or a recipe for market distortions and lower efficiency?

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    Is AI a Master or Slave?

    Joschka Fischer wonders whether humanity can even hope to maintain control in an era of “mega-crisis.”
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    Laying Chicago Economics to Rest

    Antara Haldar

    From breakthroughs in behavioral economics to mounting evidence in the real world, there is good reason to think that the economic orthodoxy of the past 50 years now has one foot in the grave. The question is whether the mainstream economics profession has gotten the memo.

    looks back on 50 years of neoclassical economic orthodoxy and the damage it has wrought.
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    America’s Broken Civic Bargain

    J. Bradford DeLong worries that Republicans have abandoned one of the core principles that sustains a democracy over time.

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