IMF World Economic Outlook July 2022
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Global Issues
Accelerated Change
Luis Rubio “The future is already here, wrote the novelist William Gibson; it’s just not evenly distributed.” The change that the world is experiencing is unstoppable and taking place on all fronts, some benign and others exceedingly risky. In recent weeks a series of news reports …
Luis Maizel’s Monthly letter: A complicated world without any quick solutions.
The end of the first half of 2022 marked one of the most complex times worldwide, from the war in Ukraine, global inflation, product shortages, and the apparent beginning of a worldwide recession period. Usually, in times of crisis, there are winners and losers, but …
Irwin Cotler – The Retreat of Democracies: Through the Lens of Political Prisoners
Few have done as much to right the world’s wrongs as Irwin Cotler. As an international human rights lawyer, Irwin counselled political prisoners and activists, including anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela and Soviet refusenik Natan Sharansky. He served the Canadian people as Member of Parliament for Mount …
Disappeared
Juan Villoro I met Uruguayan sociologist Gabriel Gatti in the fall of 2019 at Stanford University. It was my first contact with someone who, interestingly enough, is dedicated to studying the disappearance of people. We tuned in immediately because we were facing the same predicament. …
Larry Summers: Recession is coming; Fed is Behind the Curve.
Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers shares advice for the federal government on what to do next, as the country heads toward an inevitable recession. Lawrence Summers former Treasury Secretary, and President of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006, and professor and director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center …
Crises are for the Summer
Antonio Navalón If one looks at today’s world’s shape and the situation of the countries that matter to us – starting with our own – and which affect us, one can come to a conclusion that seems obvious. In my opinion, a conclusion that provides …
Immigration: Reality overtook Ideology
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The issue of migration was central to the conversations during the Summit of the Americas, held recently in Los Angeles, California, at the invitation of the President of the United States, Joe Biden. The agreements on the migratory phenomenon revolved around the …
The Authoritarian Populism of the 21st. Century.
Angel Jaramillo Torres* The great technological revolution integrating digital, biological, and physical systems could liquidate the only remaining political alternative: liberalism, given that Fascism and Communism were defeated, the former in 1945 and the latter in 1989. The coming decades will witness the end of …
Jamie Dimon: Brace for an Economic Hurricane
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