Opinion
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Immunization on the Front Line
MAPUTO – Most of the news one hears coming out of Mozambique is bad – poverty, disease, conflict, and floods.…
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The Full Value of Childhood Vaccines
GENEVA – If you want to know the value of vaccines, just spend some time in a clinic in Africa.…
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Battleground Budget
MILAN – The world’s developed economies, of which the United States is by far the largest and systemically most important,…
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Remarkable Declines in Global Poverty, But Major Challenges Remain
The number of people living on less than $1.25 per day has decreased dramatically in the past three decades, from…
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A Chinese Pivot?
NEW DELHI – Is China, under its new president, Xi Jinping, undertaking its own diplomatic pivot, parallel to the United…
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Innovation in Development Finance
ROME – More than four decades ago, the world’s wealthiest countries pledged that at least 0.7% of their GDP would…
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The Iron Lady as Liberator
KHARKIV, UKRAINE – Prison is always a place of mourning. But perhaps learning of Margaret Thatcher’s death in this place…
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The Global Growth Quest
NEWPORT BEACH – What is the most urgent economic priority shared by countries as diverse as Brazil, China, Cyprus, France,…
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India’s Data of Discrimination
NEW DELHI – Last December’s fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi triggered an unprecedented public outcry…
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Stop Paying the Polluters
BRUSSELS – “When the winds of change blow,” says an old Chinese proverb, “some build walls, and others build wind…
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