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Mario Pezzini

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Mario Pezzini is Director of the OECD Development Centre and Special Adviser to the OECD Secretary-General on Development.

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  1. The Digital Transformation Strategy Africa Needs
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    The Digital Transformation Strategy Africa Needs

    Feb 22, 2021 Victor Harison & Mario Pezzini outline four guiding principles that could help the continent's governments nurture large-scale job creation.

  2. A New Development Vision for Latin America
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    A New Development Vision for Latin America

    Jun 16, 2020 Mario Pezzini, et al. call for a profound rethink of national social pacts in order to address rising popular discontent in the region.

  3. Firms Must Drive Africa’s Transformation
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    Firms Must Drive Africa’s Transformation

    Aug 26, 2019 Victor Harison & Mario Pezzini outline a strategy for capitalizing on the opportunities offered by a new continental trade bloc.

  4. Data-Driven Gender Equality
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    Data-Driven Gender Equality

    Jan 23, 2019 Gabriela Ramos & Mario Pezzini tout new analytical tools developed by the OECD to help build more equal, gender-inclusive societies.

  5. Upgrading International Development Cooperation
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    Upgrading International Development Cooperation

    Aug 14, 2018 Alicia Bárcena, et al. see Latin America and the Caribbean as a test bed for new models of international cooperation.

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    Protests of Despair

    Slavoj Žižek sees the pro-Palestinian student demonstrations as a signal of a much deeper, widespread malaise.
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    The Rise of the Finternet

    Agustín Carstens & Nandan Nilekani foresee a world in which cheap, secure, and near-instantaneous financial transactions are available to all.
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    Don’t Fret About Green Subsidies

    Dani Rodrik sees no good argument against industrial policies that accelerate growth in decarbonization industries.
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    Europe’s Geoeconomic Competitiveness Challenge

    Daniel Gros highlights the security risks raised by the prolonged decline of the EU’s relative economic power.
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    How Exceptional Is China’s Crony-Capitalist Boom?

    Yuen Yuen Ang

    While both the American and Chinese Gilded Ages raised material standards of living for hundreds of millions of people, their endemic corruption produced radically unequal and unsustainable growth. Ultimately, both periods offer cautionary tales about unbridled crony capitalism, not models for blind emulation.

     explains how corruption both drove the country's GDP growth and sowed the seeds for its current economic problems.
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    Will India’s Election Destroy Its Democracy?

    Since taking power in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party have stoked Hindu nationalism, hollowed out India’s democracy, and overseen an economy that is probably performing far worse than official figures suggest. And yet Modi and the BJP are genuinely popular, making them likely – though not certain – to emerge victorious when the ongoing parliamentary election concludes in June.

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    The Unbearable Lightness of Anti-Zionism

    Shlomo Ben-Ami warns that demonizing all Israelis will only make peace less likely – though that may be the point.
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    How to Close the Gender Wage Gap

    Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir argues that Iceland’s experience lends further support to Nobel laureate economist Claudia Goldin’s research.
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    Getting the Pandemic Treaty Across the Finish Line

    Gordon Brown hopes negotiations will conclude this month, and pushes back on a last-minute wave of misinformation.

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