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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia, is Director-General of the World Health Organization.

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  1. Global Health Is the Best Investment We Can Make
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    Global Health Is the Best Investment We Can Make

    Nov 24, 2022 Werner Hoyer & Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stress the need for more spending and greater cooperation to regain progress reversed by the pandemic.

  2. Building a Better Global Health Framework
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    Building a Better Global Health Framework

    Nov 28, 2021 Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus identifies four priorities for improving future pandemic preparedness and response.

  3. The G7 Must Act to Vaccinate the World
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    The G7 Must Act to Vaccinate the World

    Apr 15, 2021 Gordon Brown, et al. call on rich-country leaders to finance equitable global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.

  4. Globalizing the Fight Against the Pandemic
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    Globalizing the Fight Against the Pandemic

    May 29, 2020 Carlos Alvarado Quesada & Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announce the launch of a data-sharing pool to drive innovation toward COVID-19 treatments and a vaccine.

  5. Winning the War Against Maternal and Child Deaths
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    Winning the War Against Maternal and Child Deaths

    May 21, 2020 Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, et al. fear that the COVID-19 crisis will halt – or reverse – recent progress in protecting mothers and children.

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    The Other Conflict on Europe’s Doorstep

    Anders Fogh Rasmussen warns that Azerbaijan may be preparing to renew its military aggression against neighboring Armenia.
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    Let the Banks Burn

    Yanis Varoufakis

    The banking system we take for granted is unfixable. The good news is that we no longer need to rely on any private, rent-seeking, socially destabilizing network of banks, at least not the way we have so far.

     shows why the current private system is unfixable – and why we don’t need to tolerate it anymore.
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    How China Benefits from Another US Banking Crisis

    Stephen S. Roach thinks America’s latest financial trouble will reinforce a narrative of terminal national decline.
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    Xi Jinping’s Chinese Tragedy

    Orville Schell interviewed by Irena Grudzińska Gross

    Like Vladimir Putin, China's leader is so steeped in a narrative of victimhood and fearful of appearing weak that it is hard to imagine him ever leading China out of the mess he has created. He could well be remembered as the leader who squandered history's most remarkable economic success story.

     about the country's increasingly worrisome trajectory, both at home and abroad.
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    Artificial Idiocy

    Slavoj Žižek fears that the rise of powerful chatbots will spell the death of irony and nuance in human thought.
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    Localizing Development Research

    Julia Kaufman & Jane Wanjiku Mariara explain why funders should be providing more long-term resources to researchers in developing countries.
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    The Simplest Fix for Banking

    Jan Eeckhout explains how central bank digital currencies would end bank runs and banks' excessive risk-taking.
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    America’s Interest in Ending the Ukraine Crisis

    Brahma Chellaney explains why prolonging the conflict risks realizing the West’s worst geopolitical nightmare.
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    America’s Industrial Policy Is Counterproductive

    Anne O. Krueger laments that the Biden administration is adding red tape to an inefficient subsidy program.

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