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Prof. Michael Spence's op-ed on the impact of political instability is highlighted

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Excerpt from Politico -- "In an article on July 25, the Nobel Laureate economist Michael Spence put it this way: '[A]t this moment in history, the main threats to prosperity … are the huge uncontained negative spillover effects of regional tensions, conflict, and competing claims to spheres of influence. The most powerful impediment to growth and recovery is not this or that economic imbalance; it is a loss of confidence in the systems that made rising global interdependence possible.' A claim of this sort can’t be quantified – but it worries Spence, and it worries me."

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