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November 01, 2024
I’ve been reading Amartya Sen’s The Idea of Justice recently (and slowly). It’s my wife’s copy, signed by the great man himself. In it, he continually returns to the argument that in choosing arrangements that affect justice and fairness in the world we must take consideration of the views of those ...
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October 31, 2024
The World Health Organization (WHO) has long recommended mass deworming of children in endemic areas on the grounds that it improves health and nutrient uptake. Mass deworming is recommended at least once per year if, based on population survey, over 20 percent of pre-school and school-age children ...
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October 30, 2024
The 80th anniversary of Bretton Woods has brought forth many proposals on how the IMF should change to respond to emerging economic and financial challenges and to a very different geopolitical context. A common theme across these proposals is that the IMF can only remain relevant, effective, and le...
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October 29, 2024
After taking office amid COVID-19 and increasingly urgent alarms about the threat of climate change, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen started making the case for MDB reform underscoring that these institutions, while vital, were no longer fit for purpose. Her priority was to support the evolution of...
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October 29, 2024
The insinuation that the informal work of bringing up families, cultures, and values is less real than the formal work of paid employment reflects a crucial mindset shift that still needs to happen. Care work is real work. It may be informal and undervalued, but it is real work.
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October 29, 2024
China's financial contributions to tackling climate change in developing countries may be far greater than previously thought. Exploring how China’s recent contributions compare with the US in scale and composition, we find that, after including both countries’ contributions to multilateral organisa...
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October 29, 2024
On the 14th October, the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health (CIH) released its third report (CIH 3.0). In this blog, we argue the reports’ approach to setting priorities globally and by burden of disease, combined with historically determined and (perhaps) politically negotiated modular healt...