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China, the United States, and the Future of a Rules-based International Order

Posted Aug 01, 2024| by Brookings

With China being widely perceived as the greatest challenge to the current rules-based international order, a central part of this Brookings paper is to better understand the elements of China’s challenge. China has decried the “so-called ‘rules-based’ international order” as not truly representative of “universal... Read More

A Low-Growth World Is an Unequal, Unstable World

Posted on Jul 31, 2024 | in category: Delivering sustainable economic growth | by International Monetary Fund Blog

Long periods of slow economic growth can cause a jump in inequality. But a balanced set of policies can stave off that outcome, notes Kristalina Georgieva in her IMF Blog. Global growth is expected to reach 3.2 percent this year and 3.3 percent in 2025... Read More

How One Bad CrowdStrike Update Crashed the World’s Computers

Posted on Aug 01, 2024 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by WIRED

A defective CrowdStrike update sent computers around the globe into a reboot spiral, taking down air travel, hospitals, banks, and more with it. In their article for WIRED,Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burges and Andy Greenberg explain how this became possible. According to CrowdStrike, the root... Read More

New Estimates of the Cost of Ending Poverty

Posted on Aug 01, 2024 | in category: Reducing poverty and improving equity | by Global Policy

To end extreme poverty and absolute monetary poverty worldwide by 2030, would cost about $70 and $325 billion per year, Andy Sumner and Arief Anshory Yusuf suggest in their Global Policy article. Their estimates of the monetary value of transfers needed to end poverty translates... Read More

Asian Powers Set Their Strategic Sights on Europe

Posted on Jul 23, 2024 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by Foreign Policy

The rapid growth of Asian economies and the redistribution of global power in favor of the East heralds a new era in the relationship between Europe and Asia. What began as a shift in economic power, is now extending to the geopolitical, military, and technological... Read More

The ‘Evergreen Economy’: Harnessing the Power of Healthy Longevity

Posted on Jul 23, 2024 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by McKinsey&Company

Global life expectancy is now over 70. In high-income countries, 50 percent of children are expected to live to their late 80s or early 90s, although they may not be healthier for longer. It must be assured that people remain productive and engaged for longer... Read More

No Shortcuts: Only Well-Managed AI Will Deliver on Its Promise

Posted on Aug 01, 2024 | in category: Delivering sustainable economic growth | by Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation

Generative AI tools can help create more equity in education. Gen AI can also help reduce the burden on government officials as they review voluminous comments from the public regarding proposed regulations. In this article for the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, Richard Hendra addresses the... Read More