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John W. McArthur

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John W. McArthur is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution.

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  1. How Is the World Really Doing on the SDGs?
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    How Is the World Really Doing on the SDGs?

    Oct 1, 2024 Homi Kharas & John W. McArthur offer a balanced assessment of the forms and pace of progress made since 2015.

  2. Rebooting the Sustainable Development Goals
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    Rebooting the Sustainable Development Goals

    Jul 19, 2024 John W. McArthur & Zia Khan urge political, business, and civil-society leaders to foster the big ideas needed to meet the 2030 targets.

  3. Let the Great Transition Begin
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    Let the Great Transition Begin

    Jan 7, 2021 Zia Khan & John W. McArthur urge world leaders to focus on building a new post-crisis future, rather than returning to the status quo ante.

  4. Lessons From an Age of Progress
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    Lessons From an Age of Progress

    Mar 17, 2017 John W. McArthur applies insights from the Millennium Development Goals to current global development efforts.

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    The Trade Shifts Redefining Economic Development

    Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg & Michele Ruta consider the long-term implications of three major trends that could reshape globalization.
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    Trump at the Gates

    Joschka Fischer urges Europeans to recognize that they are now on their own in an increasingly dangerous world.
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    The End of Progress?

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Though the United States has long led the world in advancing basic science and technology, it is hard to see how this can continue under President Donald Trump and the country’s ascendant oligarchy. America’s rejection of Enlightenment values will have dire consequences.

     predicts that Donald Trump’s second administration will be defined by its rejection of Enlightenment values.
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    China’s Trump Dilemma

    Yanis Varoufakis

    Will the China hawks in Donald Trump’s administration railroad him into a confrontation that transcends tariffs and embraces financial sanctions of the type the US and the European Union imposed on Russia? If they do, China's leaders will have to decide whether to decouple from the dollar-based international monetary system.

     thinks the real choice facing Chinese leaders may be whether to challenge the dollar's hegemony head-on.
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    The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap

    Pascal Lamy, et al. explain how investments in African agri-food systems can advance many of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
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    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.

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