The same clean air policies that can reduce fossil fuel emissions and help rein in climate change can also add up to 5 years onto people’s lives in the most polluted regions, while globally adding more than 2 years onto lives on average.
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Bill Mitchell – The Japanese denial story
Discussing Japanese public finances is extremely difficult. It is not much different from the arguments 600 years ago about whether the world is flat. Critics claimed that eventually the ship will fall off the world […]
Economics
T. Sabri Öncü: Dealing with the overhang of non-financial private debt
Building on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Global Debt Database (GDD) comprising debts of the public and private non-financial sectors for 190 countries dating back to 1950, Mbaye et al (2018) identify a recurring pattern […]
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Branko Marcetic: US Sanctions Are Brutal and Inhumane. And They Don’t Work.
Sanctions are a form of collective punishment. Their costs are overwhelmingly borne by innocent people rather than governments. And they are just another form of war, not an alternative to it. The US’s many sanctions […]
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