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Wangari Maathai

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Wangari Maathai, President of the Green Belt Movement, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004.

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Africa’s Stake in the Climate-Change Debate

Dec 2, 2009 Graça Machel, et al.

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Rise Up and Walk

Dec 4, 2006 Wangari Maathai

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The Trump Contagion

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How to Govern a Digitally Networked World

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Humanitarian Markets

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The Fed Board Unmoored

Mar 25, 2019 J. Bradford DeLong plumbs the depths of Stephen Moore's incompetence to oversee US monetary policy.

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Truly Taking Back Control

Mar 25, 2019 Raghuram G. Rajan says devolving power to economically depressed communities could make virulent nationalism less appealing.

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The Economic Consequences of Global Uncertainty

Mar 25, 2019 Michael Spence enumerates the technological, political, and institutional disruptions that are currently undermining growth.

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Brexit and the Speaker’s Tale

Mar 22, 2019 Marion Turner suggests that Geoffrey Chaucer would have welcomed the current frenzied debate in the UK House of Commons.

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The Rich Can Fight Inequality, Too

Mar 22, 2019 Kaushik Basu urges wealthy people who support left-wing causes to reject accusations of hypocrisy meant to silence them.

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