Parag Khanna
The Human City
SINGAPORE – The tangled web of international organizations that constitutes global governance has become so remote and ineffective that few …
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The challenges facing developing countries – from providing clean water to fighting infectious diseases – are jeopardizing their economic growth prospects, on which the global economy's health increasingly depends. Project Syndicate, working with the Gates Foundation, the Columbia Earth Institute, and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, provides analysis of the trends and debates shaping developing countries’ potential – and the global economy’s prospects.
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Kanayo F. Nwanze
Harnessing the Remittance Boom
ROME – For more than a decade, Asia’s economies have been on the move – and so have its people. The scale of migration from rural to urban a…
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Erik Solheim
A New Deal for Fragile States
PARIS – Today, roughly one-quarter of the world’s population lives in conflict-affected and fragile states. Despite vast sums of money spent…
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Jomo Kwame Sundaram
The Mismeasure of Poverty
ROME – In early 2012, outgoing World Bank President Robert Zoellick announced that the Millennium Development Goal of halving the global pov…
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Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Civilizing the City
BANGALORE – Half of humanity – 3.5 billion people – live in urban areas today. Our metropolises are the engines of growth for a global econo…
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Desmond Tutu
Vaccination’s Lifetime of Blessings
CAPE TOWN – A world in which our children and their children grow up free from the threat of polio and other preventable diseases is a dream…
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Ban Ki-moon, Bill Gates
Toward an Immunized World
ABU DHABI/NEW YORK – For a child, receiving a vaccine takes just a moment (and perhaps a few tears). But such moments are crucial for gettin…
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Margarida Matsinhe
Immunization on the Front Line
MAPUTO – Most of the news one hears coming out of Mozambique is bad – poverty, disease, conflict, and floods. But there are a lot of good th…
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Suniya Qureshi
Pakistan’s Winnable War on Polio
LAHORE – I grew up in Pakistan throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s, and my parents, like parents everywhere, wanted me to be fit and healthy an…
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Seth Berkley
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. The faces of the mothers and fathers say it …
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