Earth Day: 50 years on, there is impressive progress to cheer April 22, 2020 As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day and the birth of modern environmentalism, we should pause to give each other a virtual “high five” for the impressive environmental progress society has accomplished during this span. We should also think about the ways we can make the next 50 far more effective. Case in [...]
Why embracing freer trade could be our best chance to help the world’s poor October 27, 2014 WITH one simple policy – more free trade – we could make the world $500 trillion better off and lift 160m people out of extreme poverty. If there is one question we have to ask ourselves, it is: why don’t we? In 2000, the international community agreed a set of important targets to improve the [...]
