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By Ngaire Woods OXFORD – Democratic governments in the West are increasingly losing their bearings.

By J. Bradford DeLong BERKELEY – I recently heard former World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy paraphrasing a classic Buddhist proverb, wherein China’s Sixth Buddhist Patriarch Huineng tells the nun Wu Jincang: “When the philosopher points at the moon, the fool looks at the finger.”

By Nina L Khrushcheva NEW YORK – “What we love will ruin us,” predicted Aldous Huxley in 1932.

By Joseph E Stiglitz Joseph E Stiglitz, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 and the John Bates Clark Medal in 1979, is University Professor at Columbia University, Co-Chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD, and Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute.

By Joseph E Stiglitz   NEW YORK – To say that the eurozone has not been performing well since the 2008 crisis is an understatement.

By Ali H Mokdad   SEATTLE – Data can save lives.

By Peter D Sutherland   LONDON – Migration continues to dominate political debate in many countries.

ISTANBUL/KUALA LUMPUR – Last September, world leaders made a commitment to end hunger by 2030, as part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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