World-renowned thinkers and leaders address the defining political, economic, scientific, and cultural developments of the previous 12 months and suggest what to expect in the year ahead , articles from Livemint published in collaboration with project Syndicate.
Arranged in order to suit requirements of UPSC syllabus . Articles which are not useful to us are marked as Optional read.
- Raghuram Rajan | Central banks year of reckoning – Livemint
- Joseph E. Stiglitz | The global economy’s risky recovery – Livemint
- Angus Deaton | How inequality works – Livemint
- Kevin Rudd | The Trumping of Asia – Livemint
- A truly global response to climate change – Livemint
- Laurence Tubiana | A year of renewed climate commitments – Livemint
- Edmund S. Phelps | Saving the environment and the economy – Livemint
- Making social media safe for democracy – Livemint
- Maurice Obstfeld | Short-term gains, long-term hazards – Livemint
- Klaus Schwab | Agile governance for a fractured world – Livemint
- Optional reading.
- Gordon Brown | A new balance for the global age – Livemint
- Alexander Friedman | Will monetary policy trigger another financial crisis? – Livemint
- Jason Furman | Can economic policy solve economic problems? – Livemint
- Larry Summers | Will the centre hold? – Livemint
- Yuriko Koike | Asias cities against North Korea – Livemint
- Sri Mulyani Indrawati | East Asias rising star – Livemint
- Minxin Pei | Xi Jinping unbound? – Livemint
- Mariana Mazzucato | Rediscovering public wealth creation – Livemint
- Janine R. Wedel | The venal roots of political turmoil – Livemint
- Jorge G. Castañeda | Latin Americas annus mediocris – Livemint
- María Corina Machado | Venezuelas struggle for freedom – Livemint
- Elmar Brok | America First wakes up the EU – Livemint
- Radosław Sikorski | Stealing the populists clothes – Livemint
- Célestin Monga | Africa, the business deal of the century – Livemint