Project Syndicate

By Robert Skidelsky LONDON – Recently I watched The Man Who Was Too Free, a moving documentary about the Russian dissident politician Boris Nemtsov, who was gunned down in front of the Kremlin in 2015.

By Shahra Razavi NEW YORK – Political economy has come a long way.

By  J. Bradford DeLong BERKELEY – Global superpowers have always found it painful to acknowledge their relative decline and deal with fast-rising challengers.

By Landry Signé and Ameenah Gurib-Fakim WASHINGTON, DC/PORT LOUIS – At a time when the United States, once a standard bearer of multilateralism, is embracing protectionism, Africa has taken a bold step in the opposite direction, creating the world’s largest free-trade area since the establishment of the World Trade Organization in 1995.

By Manos Antoninis PARIS – Recent decades have brought significant progress toward a more just and equal world in areas such as poverty reduction, immunization, and life expectancy.

By Alice Albright WASHINGTON, DC – Aichetou, a 14-year-old girl, lives on the outskirts of Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, in Africa’s Sahel region.

By Kenneth Rogoff CAMBRIDGE – Although much derided by climate-change deniers, not least US President Donald Trump, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal hits the nail on the head with its urgent call for the United States to lead by example on global warming.

By Simon Johnson WASHINGTON, DC – Around the world, the creation of good new jobs is increasingly concentrated in some of the largest cities.

By  Jörg Reinhardt ZURICH – Virtually every country worldwide has committed to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) by 2030, as part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

By Nina L. Khrushcheva MOSCOW – Chinese President Xi Jinping was the toast of Russia last week.

By  Zhang Jun SHANGHAI – Just when a trade agreement between the United States and China appeared to be in sight, negotiators found themselves back at square one.

By Zainab Bangura FREETOWN – As the protests that led to the ouster of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in April continue to rage, the large numbers of women taking to the streets of Khartoum are giving hope to female leaders across Africa.

SEATTLE – Twenty-five years ago, South Africa held its first free elections after the end of apartheid.

By  Amin Saikal CANBERRA – Former US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power once called genocidal wars “a problem from hell.”

By Kavita N. Ramdas and James A. Goldston NEW YORK – The United Nations Security Council has just adopted a resolution aimed at ending the use of sexual violence as a weapon during war.

By Daron Acemoglu CAMBRIDGE – Around the world this May Day, policy proposals that would have appeared radical just a few years ago are now on the agenda.

By Elizabeth Drew WASHINGTON, DC – The political situation in the United States is more unsettled now than at any time since I began covering it, including the Watergate era.

NEW YORK – The solution to human-induced climate change is finally in clear view.

By Luis Alberto Moreno President of the Inter-American Development Bank For many people in the Caribbean, mentioning the Arabian Gulf is likely to conjure up images of a distant desert.

NEW YORK – In medical school, we learned about the ghastly effects of severe protein-calorie malnutrition.