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Renzo Guinto

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Renzo Guinto, Chief Planetary Health Scientist at the Sunway Centre for Planetary Health in Malaysia, is Inaugural Director of the Planetary and Global Health Program at the St. Luke’s Medical Center College of Medicine in the Philippines.

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  1. The Economy that Planetary Health Requires
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    The Economy that Planetary Health Requires

    Nov 8, 2021 Renzo Guinto thinks the need to envisage a “new normal” is no less urgent now than it was at the beginning of the pandemic.

  2. Pandemic Policy Must be Climate Policy
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    Pandemic Policy Must be Climate Policy

    Jul 28, 2020 Renzo Guinto says that lockdowns cannot lead to healthy, equitable decarbonization, but can spur changes that will.

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    Here We Go Again?

    Fifteen years after the collapse of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers triggered a devastating global financial crisis, the banking system is in trouble again. Central bankers and financial regulators each seem to bear some of the blame for the recent tumult, but there is significant disagreement over how much – and what, if anything, can be done to avoid a deeper crisis.

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    The Coming Doom Loop

    Nouriel Roubini

    In the face of high and persistent inflation, recession risks, and now a looming insolvency crisis in the financial sector, central banks like the US Federal Reserve are facing a trilemma. Unable to fight inflation and provide liquidity support simultaneously, the only solution is a severe recession – and thus a broader debt crisis.

     warns that liquidity support will not be enough to prevent a deeper financial crisis and economic downturn.
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    Crises of Uncertainty

    Harold James fears the consequences of policymakers’ continual revision of economic and financial governance rules.
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    Destructive Decoupling

    Michael Spence

    Policymakers in both the United States and China seem to have fully accepted, and even embraced, the logic of economic decoupling. But what exactly will decoupling entail, and what will its consequences be?

     tallies the costs of the global economic fragmentation that the US-China rivalry has set in motion.
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    Xi Jinping’s Idea of World Order

    Mark Leonard explains China’s new strategy for appealing to developing countries and emerging economies.
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    Tyranny’s Propagandists Are Winning

    Maria Ressa & Nishant Lalwani urge funders and policymakers to commit significant funds to support public-interest journalism.
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    Dodgy Climate Finance

    Ricardo Hausmann argues that many assistance programs misrepresent the amount of aid being provided.
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    Tick TikTok Goes Globalization

    Kenneth Rogoff thinks efforts to restrict American users’ access to the app are hypocritical and counterproductive.
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    To Reconstruct Turkey, Rebuild Its Democracy

    Daron Acemoglu & Cihat Tokgöz think the country needs not just a new government but a broader economic and political transformation.

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