My piece in The Economist today, arguing that countries like Pakistan need to overcome their fear of debt restructuring Keeping up the fiction that they don't need it is only increasing the risk of a default & social strife, while mortgaging the future of their populations. A 🧵

GDP is an imperfect metric of wellbeing + some things can improve wellbeing while reducing consumption➡️ true! We must end global growth➡️present a realistic plan for redistributing most rich country resources to poor ones. If you talk about degrowth pls clarify which you mean!

Illustrative of just how scarce jobs are in many countries: Benin is recruiting 150 civil servants and nearly 15,000 people took the exam to compete for the spots 24haubenin.info/?14-773-candid…

Only a DC think tank could come up with this list of honorees and introducers for a global citizen award

When we talk about climate finance under the $100 billion goal, a lot of what we’re actually talking about is MDB climate finance, and that will likely be much of what materializes under the new goal. Negotiators better understand it if they want to make the new goal a good one!