Medicaid is one of the best-known programs for facilitating vaccinations of children in poor families, said Robert Shapiro.

“It’s one thing to have a deal that talks about how might we manage their extraction and their revenue,” Tom Moerenhout said of the agreement. “It’s another thing entirely to actually have extractive projects, to actually have mining operations going on, and that is something that the deal does not guarantee.”

"Watching from the sidelines, policy-makers in Washington, Beijing, Tokyo, and Pyongyang are focused on both the dangers and the opportunities that South Korea’s political turmoil will create," writes Ian Bremmer.

Diego Rivera Rivota said it is unclear whether there are significant reserves of critical minerals in Ukraine that are commercially viable. 

Arvind Panagariya said India has gone on to gradually improve its governance system and a lot of economic reforms that had to be done have been done.

“If we assume he had any honeymoon period at the start, he still basically has it," Robert Shapiro told McClatchy News.

“Virtually all economists think that the impact of the tariffs will be very bad for America and for the world," said Joseph Stiglitz.

Outside of Europe, Singapore stands out for one of the most rigorous plans, involving vehicle quotas and charges during peak hours: “The city’s development pattern has to be dense in order to make this work,” said Steven Cohen.

“The urgency of climate change hasn’t gone away,” Jason Bordoff, director of the Center on Global Energy Policy told Semafor.