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Courtesy Austrian Economics Center The Austrian Economics Center (AEC) has expressed its concern with the intention of the US government to establish an International Reference Pricing (IRP) for medicines. Indeed, in recent years, the US has stayed on the drug pricing issue with key proposals in the form of executive orders by President […]
Time for a tech-driven platform to boost global debt transparency
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By Rym Ayadi and Emilios Avougleas, courtesy of the Centre for European Policy Studies The Covid-19 pandemic has caused widespread concern about debt unsustainability in both developed and emerging economies. To address this challenge, in its April 2020 Communiqué, the G-20 launched a restructuring initiative with regards to debt in the poorest countries (under the G20 […]
Net Deforestation Nearing Zero
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One of the most charming qualities of trees is their ability to absorb atmospheric CO2, and the loss of large tracts of forested land is widely imagined as a contributing factor to global warming. Except it’s just not true, as Alexander Hammond points out in Human Progress, noting that environmental activists’ claims about […]