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  Developing nations sour on multilateralism

  Oped, Published on 23/03/2024

  » Multilateralism is waning, and one of the world's leading multilateral institutions, the WTO, is in crisis because the US has been blocking new appointments to its dispute settlement mechanism's Appellate Body since 2018. In the run-up to the WTO's 13th Ministerial Conference last month, some optimists hoped to see progress on specific issues, such as an agreement not to impose tariffs on digital commerce, but expectations were generally low.

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  The roots of the global water crisis

  Oped, Published on 29/09/2023

  » In March 1977, representatives from 116 countries gathered in Mar del Plata, Argentina, for the inaugural United Nations Water Conference. At the time, the event received very little attention. Global politics was dominated by a handful of powerful countries, most of them in temperate regions where water scarcity, severe pollution, and flooding were not considered major issues.

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  Myanmar crisis needs a Thai fix

  News, Published on 07/09/2023

  » Thailand must play a greater mediative role in the Myanmar crisis, starting with the Asean meeting.

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  'Davos Man' needs to acquire some social skills

  Oped, Published on 04/02/2023

  » One of the most iconic images of our time shows a polar bear marooned and adrift on an ice floe. Few other images capture the reality of climate change so viscerally. And now, ironically, Davos Man finds himself in a similar metaphorical position. His natural habitat, the hyper-globalised world of the past half-century, is shrinking, and he has gone from skiing in the Swiss Alps to skating on thin ice.

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  Let's count what really adds up to national wealth

  Oped, Published on 23/06/2022

  » Despite well-known problems with using gross domestic product (GDP) as an indicator of human development, policymakers around the world still seem obsessed with it.

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  Thailand's democratic foundations remain weak

  News, Published on 06/04/2019

  » The past estimates on the evolution of income inequality in Thailand have been misleading. Thailand remains one of the most unequal economies in the world, and the situation has not been improving as swiftly as we have previously been told: it just stopped getting worse.

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  Bold, new focus for gender equality needed now

  News, Published on 09/03/2019

  » Some 1.6 billion people in rural areas across the globe depend on forests for their livelihoods. The management of these resources, however, occurs in a socio-cultural power context that significantly impacts the livelihood of forest-dependent communities. Women still are in a position of subjugation due to discriminatory social norms and a lack of resources. For example, according to the United Nations Environment Programme, women produce between 60% and 80% of food while only owning 2% of land worldwide.

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  AI risks devastating developing world economies

  News, Published on 19/09/2018

  » Most studies of the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on jobs and the economy have focused on developed countries such as the US and Britain. But through my work as a scientist, technology executive and venture capitalist in the US and China, I've come to believe that the gravest threat AI poses is to emerging economies.

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  South Korea has some lessons Trump should heed

  News, Michael Schuman, Published on 13/09/2017

  » Advisers seem to have convinced US President Donald Trump not to trash the country's free-trade agreement with South Korea -- for now. Mr Trump himself still seems intent on extracting concessions from the Koreans and could yet withdraw from the deal. The irony is that, more than any other, South Korea's own story shows how foolish that would be.

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  Asian-Americans triumph despite prejudice

  News, Nicholas Kristof, Published on 12/10/2015

  » This is an awkward question, but here goes: Why are Asian-Americans so successful in America? It's no secret that Asian-Americans are disproportionately stars in American schools, and even in American society as a whole. Census data shows that Americans of Asian heritage earn more than other groups, including whites. Asian-Americans also have higher educational attainment than any other group.

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