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Work and digitalisation

Changing employment in the age of labour platforms

The Covid-19-induced exponential growth in digital labour platforms forces us to circle back to basic questions about the nature of work

By Jayati Ghosh

Reuters

Economy and ecology

A debt pandemic is engulfing the Global South

Covid-19 is not the only pandemic ravaging across the Global South. A debt pandemic threatens to prevent developing countries' recovery

By Daniel Munevar

Reuters

Economy and ecology

We need to talk about overfishing

By jointly ending harmful fisheries subsidies, China and Europe can help tackle climate change and protect local communities’ livelihoods

By Isabel Jarrett

Reuters

Democracy and society

Why inclusion and equality pay off for all of us

Fostering inclusion and combating inequality should concern everyone — the resulting long-term problems affect society as a whole

By Judith Kohlenberger

Pexeles

Foreign and security policy

Not even the pandemic could stop a new arms race

The pandemic could have been a chance to reverse high military spending globally. Instead, we could be heading towards a new Cold War-style arms race

By Herbert Wulf

Reuters

Economy and ecology

The new transatlantic alliance

To make the transatlantic economy a leader in the fight against climate change, Europe should work with US President Biden on a joint CO2 tax

By Metin Hakverdi

Reuters

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

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

Reuters

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

Reuters

Work and digitalisation

Big Tech vs the Free Press

Beyond censorship, Big Tech's capture of digital ad revenue poses a major threat to the free press. But it could now face a united transatlantic front

By Steven Hill