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Anita Zaidi

Anita Zaidi

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Anita Zaidi is President of the Gender Equality Division at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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  1. A Blueprint from India for Women’s Economic Empowerment
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    A Blueprint from India for Women’s Economic Empowerment

    Feb 8, 2023 Anita Zaidi touts the country’s self-help groups as a model for boosting women’s economic prospects and personal agency.

  2. The Key to Development
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    The Key to Development

    Jun 30, 2021 Anita Zaidi interviewed by Project Syndicate about the importance of gender equality as a factor in reducing poverty and preserving public health.

  3. Maintaining the Momentum Against Cholera
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    Maintaining the Momentum Against Cholera

    Jun 4, 2019 Anita Zaidi reports that new records are being set in the delivery of vaccines to vulnerable countries.

  4. Three Ways to Improve Child Health
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    Three Ways to Improve Child Health

    Nov 24, 2016 Anita Zaidi identifies the key interventions that could save millions of children from diarrhea and pneumonia.

  5. Stopping the Child Killers
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    Stopping the Child Killers

    Dec 4, 2015 Anita Zaidi calls on governments to adopt proven, low-cost methods to prevent and treat diarrhea and pneumonia.

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    In Praise of First-Past-the-Post

    Andrés Velasco explains why Britain’s electoral system is better than all the plausible alternatives.
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    Peacebuilding in the Middle East Requires Women

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Xanthe Scharff argue that negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians must no longer be the province of men.
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    Macron and Europe’s Centrists Are Out of Good Options

    Yanis Varoufakis shows that an intractable economic conundrum lies behind the current impasse in French politics.
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    Immigration Does Not Start at the US Border

    Carlos Alvarado-Quesada laments the failure of Republicans and Democrats alike to address the root causes of migration.
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    Will AI Kill Off Money?

    Jean-Pierre Landau considers some of the underappreciated implications of an economy run entirely by machines.
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    A Philosopher for Our Times

    Enrique Krauze shows that, given rising illiberalism, the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza is as relevant as ever.
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    A New Worldview for Troubled Times

    Dennis J. Snower proposes four principles to guide policymaking and global negotiations in the age of climate change.
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    Navigating Today’s Frothy Financial Markets

    Dambisa Moyo offers a basic framework for assessing the risk of new bubbles and their potential spillover effects.
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    An Arab Spring for Bangladesh?

    M. Niaz Asadullah argues that young protestors could help the country chart a democratic course and achieve sustainable growth.

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