Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

13 November 2014
Cornelius Adebahr argues that countries in and outside of the EU should consider reforms as continuing regardless of any official ascension date. After the experience of (…
13 November 2014
The Post-2015 Consensus' sixth set of papers is focuses on whether energy should be included in the post-2015 development agenda and, if so, how? Nutritious food, clean…
06 November 2014
Karl Muth argues supporting the minimum wage was an easy - but wrong - decision in the US's mid-term elections. During the midterm American election on Tuesday, five out of…
04 November 2014
Karl Muth reports on the positive signals for policy surrounding electric cars. Much ink (tangible and digital) has been spilled on the issue of Hong Kong’s democracy.…
04 November 2014
Are we willing to pay $254 billion or almost two years of the next fifteen years of development aid, to get better data? The Post-2015 Consensus' fifth set of papers is…
28 October 2014
Karl Muth argues that FATCA’s ‘presumption of suspiciousness’ is driving wealthy Americans to extraordinary lengths. In high-net-worth circles, the conversation…
27 October 2014
Karl Muth reveals how ISIS attempts to allude to a past it fails to understand. The final S in the abbreviation ISIS stands for Syria (al-Dawlah al-Islāmīyah fī al-ʻIraq wa-al-…
22 October 2014
The Post-2015 Consensus' fourth set of papers is focused on Science and Technology targets for the post-2015 development agenda. There is a way to make the poor of this world…
20 October 2014
Karl T. Muth discusses how he decided on a TED Talk topic. In a Twitter “conversation” with Bill Easterly earlier this week, people replied to Easterly’s…
17 October 2014
In the wake of the Scottish referendum Cornelius Adebahr explores how Europe must reform itself to remain fit for purpose. After the Scottish referendum, commentators detected a…