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Economy and ecology

Inside China's decarbonisation challenge

Last year, Xi Jinping announced ambitious climate targets. But China's reluctant state apparatus struggles to reconcile high growth and climate policy

By Alexander Kallweit

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Work and digitalisation

How the post-pandemic labour market will look like

The pandemic has exacerbated racial, gender and educational inequality in the labour market. We need to fundamentally reimagine work after Covid-19

By Laura Tyson, Susan Lund

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Future of social democracy

Denmark's social democrats seized the ‘corona moment’

The party has weathered the Covid-19 crisis remarkably well. Now, their biggest challenge is to reconcile its climate goals with welfare investments

By Asbjørn Sonne Nørgaard, Alexander Grandt Petersen

European integration

Vaccines: a very European disaster

On healthcare, the US has a lot to learn from Europe’s successes. Yet the latter's vaccination fiasco also revealed flawed institutions and attitudes

By Paul Krugman

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Democracy and society

Nepal’s ongoing political limbo

The Communists' 2017 landslide victory was a chance at stability and development. But an escalating intra-party conflict has led Nepal into crisis

By Dinesh Bhattarai

Reuters

Economy and ecology

Credit-rating agencies could derail economic recovery

The world's major private agencies are preventing low-income countries from investing in the recovery. We urgently need an independent public agency

By Jayati Ghosh

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Future of social democracy

Dutch elections: the triumph of two liberalisms

Among dismal results for the Left, Mark Rutte's VVD and Sigrid Kaag's D66 consolidated the dominance of economic and cultural liberalism

By René Cuperus

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Democracy and society

Global vaccination VII

In China, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, normal life has more or less resumed. The low infection rates make up for the slow vaccination campaigns

By Alexander Kallweit, Alexander Rosenplänter, Christoph P. Mohr