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December 01, 2023
When Gavi’s board meets in Accra, Ghana, next week, advancing discussions on a new five-year strategic period, known as “Gavi 6.0,” will be a top agenda item. But conversations about Gavi’s future direction are also taking place against the backdrop of a leadership transition and a rapidly changing ...
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November 27, 2023
Today was the last day of my teaching for the year (and indeed, most of next year too), so with any luck the links won’t open with my complaining about perching my gigantic laptop across my knees in the most over-crowded bus known to man anymore for the next several months. But in the spirit of Than...
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November 17, 2023
The combination of a rammed Oxford Tube, a new, gigantic (but extremely fast), work laptop and person sitting next to me scrolling through their Insta stories with the volume up is guaranteed to result in typos and a generally bleak outlook on life, but on the plus side it’s just one more week of th...
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November 13, 2023
Once again the links come to from a precariously balanced laptop, perched on cramped knees on a bus, packed cheek-by-jowl with other commuters. It's not a set-up that inspires great chattiness. Nor does Sri Lanka's ongoing attempt to plumb depths of cricketing incompetence never before plumbed, or—s...
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November 03, 2023
There is something about writing an email while perched on a tiny seat in a cramped bus with your laptop on your knees and your phone (to whose wifi you're tethered to) precariously balanced on a ledge that inspires brevity (yes, I appreciate the irony of me describing this as 'brevity', but you nee...
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October 27, 2023
While I usually like to blame any late distribution of the Friday links on technology (which really is the culprit a lot since we moved to an automated system) or on CGD website policies or freezes, this week—if you wind up reading this on Monday—it's all on me. After my usual sprint home from teach...
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October 23, 2023
For the next few weeks, I'll be writing the links on the bus home from Oxford after a morning of teaching, cheek-by-jowl with what seems like half the population of the city, so forgive me if they sound harrassed, grumpy or just a bit shorter than usual; it will be because they are. Still, there are...