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Women controlling their fertility
By Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development
The breakthrough that can change the world is not a new technology or a new business process or even a new policy. It is the outcome of every girl, by the age of about 10, even in the poorest countries, internalizing thoroughly the option of controlling her fertility and thus her future: whether, who and when she marries, what education she can hope for and when, what work and career she can have. A world in which every girl everywhere at age 10 is even vaguely aware of that option (and her brothers and her father get it, too) is a world transformed: safer, richer and happier.
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More open borders
By Charles Kenny, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development
I’m hoping for fusion power, cheap and easily recycled batteries, vastly more efficient tunneling equipment, a whole range of new antibiotics, malaria and HIV vaccines. And it would be epochal to discover life on other planets. None of that seems beyond the bounds of possibility. But the social change to come that will have the biggest impact on the global quality of life is a dramatic decline of discrimination by place of birth.
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