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Joel E. Cohen

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Joel E. Cohen, Professor of Populations at The Rockefeller University and Columbia University, is the author of How Many People Can the Earth Support? (W. W. Norton & Company, 1996).

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  1. Financing Childhood Growth
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    Financing Childhood Growth

    Jul 14, 2023 Joel E. Cohen & John E. Rogers outline how development impact bonds focused on nutrition interventions could end stunting in children.

  2. How to Count Humans
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    How to Count Humans

    Aug 13, 2020 Joel E. Cohen examines a major new study forecasting population growth for the rest of this century.

  3. Secondary Schools’ Primary Importance
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    Secondary Schools’ Primary Importance

    Dec 18, 2014 Kamal Ahmad & Joel E. Cohen argue that post-primary education in the developing world benefits all levels of society.

  4. A Seismic Crime
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    A Seismic Crime

    Feb 2, 2012 Joel E. Cohen

  5. Bombs, Books, and Bucks

    Bombs, Books, and Bucks

    Jul 7, 2005 David E. Bloom & Joel E. Cohen

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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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