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The model of funding public-finance oversight in developing countries through grants has started to collapse, @AFRODAD2011’s @jayznotes warns. https://t.co/IxA69Ax0zq

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China's tax revenues have collapsed from 18.4% of GDP in 2012 to 12.6% in 2025, a level one would associate more with a struggling, lower-middle-income country than an aspiring superpower, note Navneeraj Sharma and @arvindsubraman. https://t.co/Di9kh2gl05

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Even if every central bank started tightening its monetary policy in 2022, stabilization takes longer in a protectionist world with frequent supply shocks, writes @skalemliozcan. https://t.co/QVfOpNNFxq

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A currency that aspires to global prominence should not struggle to gain acceptance in its own backyard, notes @LSEnews’s @NagyMohacsi. https://t.co/Ehq3ohW2NF

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If an AI system delivers a new vaccine, catalyst, or battery chemistry with no identifiable human author, the public is unlikely to care. But people will need someone to blame if something goes wrong, @MahroumS explains. https://t.co/xuQ6YJ16vh

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Who counts as a "middle power"? @carlbildt suggests that it is any country that must rely primarily on soft power to advance its interests. https://t.co/pBQyCYDC77

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While next year's midterms may well end Morena’s qualified majority in Mexico's lower house, a rightward swing fueled by regional forces appears unlikely, says Guillermo Ortiz (@GroupofThirty). Instead, Mexico could become a target of @realDonaldTrump. https://t.co/gxO0EWczBP

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The student protests against France’s university-admissions platform, Parcoursup, have important implications for growing debates about the use of AI for decision-making, Gabriela Ramos argues. https://t.co/8KK6hrHmmW

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Brazil's next president will inherit an economy with falling poverty and unemployment rates. @FlavioBolsonaro’s austerity plans threaten to reverse those gains, warn @usponline’s @lauraabcarvalho and Columbia’s @JosephEStiglitz. https://t.co/t8wHeHfvA6

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Alternative für Deutschland’s “new deal for Europe” seeks to neuter the EU as a political force by, among other things, weakening supranational institutions. @jaemmanouilidis thinks Europeans should be prepared for such an eventuality. https://t.co/y3ZMc97zKh

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While LLMs can impress with their speed and fluency, relying on them too heavily can make us slower, duller, and less able to think for ourselves, pointed out Ngaire Woods last year. To keep up with technological progress, we must embrace the cognitive friction that fosters critical thinking. #GlobalMediaAndInformationLiteracyWeek https://t.co/6NMB52aFOw

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Although the old adage about “garbage in, garbage out” applies more than ever in an “agentic economy,” this framing could be dangerously simplistic, Shuwei Fang warns. https://t.co/Oy9oChQ2QP

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For politicians attempting to win the support of frustrated voters, it can be tempting simply to pour investment into "left-behind" regions. Keun Lee (@SeoulNatlUni) proposes a better way. https://t.co/JlIJTkvnV8

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Together for the Ocean’s latest report finds that only 3.5% of the ocean is effectively protected, with harmful activities continuing in many areas that are supposed to be off limits, Mary Robinson warns. https://t.co/j0UNeDwiJO

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Extreme weather and climate-related events caused €822 billion ($920 billion) in economic losses across the European Union between 1980 and 2024. Climate risk has become economic risk, notes @EIB Vice President Ambroise Fayolle. https://t.co/DRvfYQkbDV

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Despite all the damage done, @JMilei's chainsaw will continue to grind away at Argentine society. To get stubborn inflation down from 30% will require more austerity when there is less to squeeze from the public purse, notes Jeremy Adelman. https://t.co/14ILkWzE5h

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In sectors where inaccurate information carries a significant cost, one already finds mechanisms for establishing the provenance of information and correcting mistakes. An agentic economy would vastly expand this need, notes Shuwei Fang. https://t.co/Oy9oChQ2QP

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A borrowing government will never volunteer to endow the people who audit it. That is why the obligation must written into agreements for stolen-asset recovery and sovereign-debt treatments, @AFRODAD2011’s @jayznotes writes. https://t.co/IxA69Ax0zq

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If an AI system delivers a new vaccine, catalyst, or battery chemistry with no identifiable human author, the public is unlikely to care. But people will need someone to blame if something goes wrong, @MahroumS explains. https://t.co/xuQ6YJ16vh

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.@SecRubio highlighted thumos, an ancient Greek word he translated as “the fire of passion, strength, courage, pride,” in his Athens speech. @eliamepgr’s Loukas Tsoukalis thinks he should have focused on another Greek word: hubris. https://t.co/8saHyaKgEE