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The intersection of gender and power is among the most important social and political issues of our time. But as the Council on Foreign Relations’ Rachel Vogelstein argues, gender equality is an economic as well as a moral imperative.** Learn more about the issue by reading Rachel Vogelstein's column in Foreign Affairs magazine: http://fam.ag/2mAQBAt.

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Vows to target corruption are as old as the modern Chinese state itself, but President Xi Jinping has made rooting it out a signature piece of his governing strategy. As PS contributor Andrew Sheng notes, Xi’s program is both welcomed by the Chinese public, and necessary for securing the Communist Party’s continued legitimacy.

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Jeffrey Frankel, a professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a former member of President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers, outlines the five criteria he uses to judge the efficacy of tax reform efforts. And in his view, the US Republicans’ most recent offering fails miserably.

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Solutions to poverty are varied, and include improvements to education, agriculture, health care, and even transportation. But as Keetie Roelen, co-director of the Center for Social Protection at the Institute of Development Studies, in Brighton, England, argues, another aspect of poverty – the sense of shame that it imposes – receives far less attention than it should.

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Niels Thygesen, Chair of the European Fiscal Board, discusses the Board's first report to the European Commission with Bill Emmott, author of The Fate of the West, and Marie Charrel of Le Monde.

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As new technologies subject the world’s economies to massive structural change, wages are no longer playing the central redistributive role they once did. Manuel Muñiz, Dean of the IE School of International Relations in Madrid and a Senior Associate at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, says that unless this decoupling of productivity and wages is addressed, the political convulsions many countries are experiencing will only intensify.

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Paola Subacchi, Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House, discusses financial stability, China, Brexit, and Italy with PS Contributing Editor John Andrews, Financial News columnist David Wighton, and Andre Verissimo, Managing Editor of Portugal’s Jornal do Negòcios.

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Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister, discusses how to negotiate with the EU and his proposal to introduce fiscal money with Anatole Kaletsky, Co-Chairman of Gavekal Draganomics, David Alandete, Managing Editor of El Pais, and Torsten Riecke, Handelsblatt’s international correspondent.

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Greece’s former finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, discusses China’s growing role in Southern Europe and EU politics with Anatole Kaletsky, Co-Chairman of Gavekal Draganomics, David Alandete, Managing Editor of El Pais, and Torsten Riecke, Handelsblatt’s international correspondent.

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Brexit seldom makes global headlines anymore, but the UK’s divorce from the EU continues, though with a few surprises. PS contributor and former economic adviser at the European Commission Philippe Legrain joins our show with an update on the state of play, and what the current talks in Brussels reveal about possible outcomes.

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