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Mia Amor Mottley

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Mia Amor Mottley is Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Barbados and a 2025 honoree of the Zayed Award for Human Fraternity.

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  1. Climate Action Demands Global Fraternity
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    Climate Action Demands Global Fraternity

    Feb 17, 2025 Mia Amor Mottley argues that human solidarity must underpin scientific, technological, financial, and diplomatic measures.

  2. The Case for Solidarity Levies
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    The Case for Solidarity Levies

    Nov 8, 2024 Emmanuel Macron, et al. call for new global levies on targeted sectors to finance the green investment developing countries need.

  3. How to Mobilize Private Climate Finance
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    How to Mobilize Private Climate Finance

    Sep 30, 2024 Mette Frederiksen & Mia Amor Mottley explain why “blended finance” should be central to discussions ahead of this year's UN Climate Change Conference.

  4. What Climate-Vulnerable Developing Countries Need Right Now
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    What Climate-Vulnerable Developing Countries Need Right Now

    Jun 21, 2024 Mia Amor Mottley & Wale Edun propose a blueprint to unlock financing and kickstart investment in adaptation and clean energy.

  5. What It Will Take to Transform Development Finance
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    What It Will Take to Transform Development Finance

    Jun 21, 2023 Mia Amor Mottley & Werner Hoyer call for new, low-cost lending instruments to invest in building resilience among vulnerable populations.

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    There Goes America

    Within his first month back in the White House, Donald Trump has upended US foreign policy and launched an all-out assault on the country’s constitutional order. With US institutions bowing or buckling as the administration takes executive power to unprecedented extremes, the establishment of an authoritarian regime cannot be ruled out.

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    In AI We Trust?

    William H. Janeway

    The rapid advance of AI might create the illusion that we have created a form of algorithmic intelligence capable of understanding us as deeply as we understand one another. But these systems will always lack the essential qualities of human intelligence.

     explains why even cutting-edge innovations are not immune to the world’s inherent unpredictability.
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    How Trump Can Achieve Sustained Growth

    Michael R. Strain foresees the US president building on a strong economy, so long as he steers clear of populist policies.
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    Europe Alone

    Daniela Schwarzer

    US Vice President J.D. Vance's speech at this year's Munich Security Conference made it clear that the long postwar era of Atlanticism is over, and that Europeans now must take their sovereignty into their own hands. With ample resources to do so, all that is required is the collective political will.

     explains what the European Union must do now that America has walked away from the transatlantic relationship.
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    What If the US Leaves the IMF and the World Bank?

    Ngaire Woods thinks the Trump administration’s approach jeopardizes America’s geopolitical and economic interests.
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    Will We Squander the AI Opportunity?

    Daron Acemoglu worries that the technology is on track to disempower, rather than complement, most of humanity.
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    Education Belongs on the Climate Agenda

    Adenike Oladosu explains why investing in schools in conflict- and crisis-affected countries would build resilience.
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    Trump’s Cultural Revolution

    Orville Schell sees obvious and troubling parallels between the US president and Mao Zedong.
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    How Europe Can Rearm

    Philippe Legrain sees three options for the European Union to finance the sharply higher defense investment it urgently needs.

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