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Gordon Brown, a former prime minister of the United Kingdom, is UN Special Envoy for Global Education and Chair of Education Cannot Wait.

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  1. Gender Apartheid Is a Crime Against Humanity
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    Gender Apartheid Is a Crime Against Humanity

    Dec 23, 2024 Gordon Brown urges global policymakers to address the Afghan regime’s egregious violations of women and girls' rights.

  2. Crunch Time for the WHO
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    Crunch Time for the WHO

    Nov 18, 2024 Gordon Brown calls on wealthy countries to ensure that the World Health Organization can confront emerging threats.

  3. Toward a Fifth World Order
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    Toward a Fifth World Order

    Oct 21, 2024 Gordon Brown & Mohamed A. El-Erian explain why multilateral institutions urgently need to be reformed, and why the G20 is the right forum for it.

  4. Investing in the WHO Will Yield Outsize Returns
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    Investing in the WHO Will Yield Outsize Returns

    Oct 14, 2024 Gordon Brown urges the organization’s 194 member states to provide the financing it needs to fulfill its mandate.

  5. The UN’s Summit of the Future Must Champion Universal Education
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    The UN’s Summit of the Future Must Champion Universal Education

    Sep 23, 2024 Gordon Brown urges global policymakers to ensure access for all schoolchildren in the world’s poorest regions.

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    Putin’s War Is Fueling Russian Stagflation

    Anders Åslund thinks a weakening economy will soon become a serious constraint on Vladimir Putin’s war machine.
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    What AI Means for Growth and Jobs

    Philippe Aghion, et al. think the technology has great potential to boost productivity without harming employment.
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    Shock-Proofing the UK Economy

    Mohamed A. El-Erian

    No country wants external developments to drive up its borrowing costs and weaken its currency, which is what the UK is facing today, together with serious cyclical and structural challenges. But if the British government responds appropriately, recent market volatility might turn out to have a silver lining.

     urges the government to communicate better what it is doing to boost resilient growth – and to do more.
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    As Trump Returns, Sino-Indian Relations Are Changing

    Debasish Roy Chowdhury explains why one of America’s key allies is hedging its bets amid escalating global tensions.
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    Ricardo Hausmann on immigration, climate finance, economic complexity, and more

    Ricardo Hausmann urges the US to issue more H1-B visas, argues that Europe must become a military superpower in its own right, applies the “growth diagnostics” framework to Venezuela, and more.
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    Will Trump Crack the Mystery of COVID’s Origin?

    Brahma Chellaney urges the incoming US administration to tighten rules governing risky “gain-of-function” research.
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    Social Media as It Should Be

    Robin Berjon explains how the Bluesky model could restore the original promise of the internet.
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    Trump’s Greenland Grab

    Carl Bildt

    Now that Donald Trump is returning to the White House, he believes that it is an “absolute necessity” for the United States to have “ownership and control” of Greenland. But as an autonomous Danish territory where the US military already operates, Greenland has no reason to abandon its current political arrangement.

     explains why the US president-elect's threats to seize the Danish territory are so dangerous.
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    Joe Biden’s Disappearing Legacy

    Richard Haass thinks the outgoing US president got some big things mostly right and some big things mostly wrong.

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