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Mercedes D'Alessandro

Mercedes D'Alessandro

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Mercedes D’Alessandro, a former national director of economy, equality, and gender at Argentina’s Ministry of Economy, is a Salzburg Global Fellow and Director of the economics program at the Metropolitan University of Education and Labor in Argentina.

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  1. Feminist Economics for All
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    Feminist Economics for All

    Mar 13, 2023 Mercedes D'Alessandro shows how a gender-conscious policymaking approach can solve a wide range of broader problems.

  2. Post-Pandemic Recovery Must Include the Care Economy
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    Post-Pandemic Recovery Must Include the Care Economy

    Oct 14, 2021 Mercedes D'Alessandro & Maria S. Floro argue that the pandemic has highlighted the need to measure the economic value of unpaid labor.

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    Will AI Close or Widen the Development Gap?

    Shamika Sirimanne & Xiaolan Fu call for multilateral action and grassroots pressure to ensure that the technology serves all countries.
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    Don’t Let Governments Break Encryption

    Jessica Dickinson Goodman & Ezequiel Passeron Kitroser urge citizens and lawmakers to fight for the privacy that previous generations took for granted.
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    Philanthropy in an Era of Declining Development Aid

    William Moore urges practitioners and policymakers to focus on already proven, scalable solutions.
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    South Africa’s Wrestling Match With Trump

    Adekeye Adebajo considers whether the current G20 president can still advance its agenda in the face of US obstruction.
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    How Aristotle Can Save Us

    Antara Haldar touts a conception of society in which politics and education cultivate the virtue of its members.
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    Trump vs. Europe

    Zaki Laïdi

    Donald Trump has left no doubt that he wants to build an authoritarian, illiberal world order based on traditional spheres of influence and agreements with other illiberal leaders. The only role that the European Union plays in his script is an obstacle that must be pushed aside.

     warns that the European Union has no place in Donald Trump’s illiberal worldview.
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    Diplomacy Is the Newest Front in the Russia-Ukraine War

    Richard Haass

    With the United States under President Donald Trump pressing for peace, matters could come to a head by this summer, when the pipeline of congressionally-approved arms for Ukraine runs out. Far from bringing peace, however, a US military cutoff of Ukraine could actually bring about an escalation in the fighting.

     explains why an enforceable ceasefire must precede, perhaps by many years, final-status negotiations.
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    Will the World Keep Buying US Treasuries?

    Paola Subacchi & Paul van den Noord foresee a gradual reduction in countries’ holdings of dollar-denominated debt, not a rapid sell-off.
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    Why China’s Marriage Crisis Matters

    Yi Fuxian examines the factors underlying a key cause of the country’s demographic crisis.

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