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Katherine Semrau

Katherine Semrau

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Katherine Semrau is Director of the Ariadne Labs BetterBirth Program, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an associate epidemiologist in the Division of Global Health Equity at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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    Germany Can Reduce Its External Surplus

    Dalia Marin

    For years, Germany's ballooning current-account surplus has rankled the rest of the world, and German policymakers have thrown up their hands as if powerless to do anything about it. But the external imbalance is a result of policies that are fully within the government's power to change.

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    Abolish the Billionaires?

    Edoardo Campanella

    Even many of the wealthiest Americans would agree that the United States needs to overhaul its tax policies to restore a sense of social justice. But, notes Edoardo Campanella, Future of the World Fellow at IE University's Center for the Governance of Change, such reforms would not be enough to restart the engines of social mobility and promote greater equality of opportunity.

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