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Esther Duflo

Esther Duflo

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Esther Duflo, Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT, is a winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics.

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    How Human Nature Can Combat Climate Change

    Alexander De Croo

    The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that we will conquer the virus by focusing on a common goal, cooperating, and allowing people the freedom to innovate. We will overcome the threat of global warming the same way.

     argues that our best hope lies in the curiosity, ingenuity, and innovation we tapped to overcome the pandemic.
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    Vaccines for All or Vaccine Apartheid?

    Gordon Brown

    The G7 summit in Cornwall will determine who is vaccinated against COVID-19 and safe and who remains unvaccinated and at risk. Rich-country leaders may be tempted to share excess vaccines rather than finance the extra costs of global immunization, but this will not be enough.

     urges G7 leaders to finance COVID-19 immunization drives in the world’s poorest countries.
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