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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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    It’s Time to Abandon Trump’s Flawed Negotiation Playbook

    Michele Gelfand points out that the best dealmakers strive for win-win outcomes, not zero-sum Pyrrhic victories.
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    America’s Last Chance to Lead in Fusion Energy

    Ylli Bajraktari warns that China's domination of the sector would give it massive economic and geopolitical leverage.
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    China Can’t Spend Its Way Out of Trouble

    Kenneth Rogoff

    China’s prolonged reliance on fiscal stimulus has distorted economic incentives, fueling a housing glut, a collapse in prices, and spiraling public debt. With further stimulus off the table, the only sustainable path is for the central government to relinquish more economic power to local governments and the private sector.

     argues that the country’s problems can be traced back to its response to the 2008 financial crisis.
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    This UN Debt Initiative Is Different

    Mahmoud Mohieldin, et al. tout an Expert Group’s efforts to prevent a full-blown solvency crisis in developing countries.
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    What African Electrification Requires

    Fatih Birol & Alain Ebobissé highlight the need for greater private-sector participation to boost investments in power grids.
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    How World Order Changes

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

    World order is a matter of degree: it varies over time, depending on technological, political, social, and ideological factors that can affect the global distribution of power and influence norms. It can be radically altered both by broader historical trends and by a single major power's blunders.

     examines the role of evolving power dynamics and norms in bringing about stable arrangements among states.
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    Israel’s Blind Spot

    Ian Buruma explains the lack of sympathy, even among the country’s many anti-war protesters, for Palestinian suffering.
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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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