''Project Syndicate'' is an international nonprofit media organization that publishes and syndicates commentary and analysis on a variety of global topics. All opinion pieces are published on the ''Project Syndicate'' website, and also distributed to a wide network of partner publications for print. it has a network of 506 media outlets in 156 countries. ''Project Syndicate'', which

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described as "the world's smartest op-ed page", provides commentaries on a wide range of topics, from economic policy and strategies for growth worldwide to human rights, Islam, and the environment. It also offers monthly series dedicated to Africa, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, as well as to China and Russia. RealClearWorld also named ''Project Syndicate'' one of the top five world news sites for 2012. A not-for-profit organization, ''Project Syndicate'' relies primarily on contributions from newspapers in developed countries, which make up roughly 60% of its membership base, to enable it to offer its services at reduced rates, or for free, to newspapers in countries where journalistic resources may not be readily available. ''Project Syndicate'' has also received grants from ZEIT-Stiftung and the

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. ''Project Syndicate'' translates its columns from English into 18 languages:

Arabic Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ...

Bengali language Bengali, also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Bangla (, , ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. ...

, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German,

Hindi Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of India, official language of the Government ...

, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swahili.

Contributors

''Project Syndicate'' has around 80 authors who submit opinion commentaries on a regular or monthly basis.

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