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Winnie Byanyima

Winnie Byanyima

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Winnie Byanyima is Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

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  1. Break the Vaccine Monopolies Now
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    Break the Vaccine Monopolies Now

    Dec 27, 2021 Winnie Byanyima argues that developing countries must have the right to manufacture their own reliable supply of doses.

  2. 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.

  3. Africa Can’t Afford COVID-19 Tradeoffs
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    Africa Can’t Afford COVID-19 Tradeoffs

    Jul 13, 2020 Abdourahmane Diallo, et al. warn that efforts to contain the coronavirus must not undermine the fight against other killer diseases.

  4. Globalization 4.0 for Whom?
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    Globalization 4.0 for Whom?

    Dec 19, 2018 Winnie Byanyima calls on the business and political elites gathering in Davos to abandon neoliberalism once and for all.

  5. The Fortunate Few and the Forgotten Many
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    The Fortunate Few and the Forgotten Many

    Jan 16, 2017 Winnie Byanyima shares startling new findings about global inequality, and proposes steps to address it.

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    Tick TikTok Goes Globalization

    Kenneth Rogoff

    The bipartisan push to ban TikTok in the US reflects both the growing distrust of China and lawmakers’ limited understanding of the tech world. While there are legitimate national-security concerns associated with the platform, a US ban could end up accelerating deglobalization.

    thinks efforts to restrict American users’ access to the app are hypocritical and counterproductive.
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    To Reconstruct Turkey, Rebuild Its Democracy

    Daron Acemoglu & Cihat Tokgöz

    Turkey's massive death toll from the earthquakes in February attests to a much larger problem. From an overly powerful construction lobby and endemic corruption to the steady erosion of democratic institutions, it is clear that the country now needs a thorough political and economic transformation.

    think the country needs not just a new government but a broader economic and political transformation.
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    India’s Boom Is a Dangerous Myth

    Ashoka Mody dismantles the hype around a rosy economic narrative that is actually becoming bleaker by the day.
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    Halting the Authoritarian Drift

    Kaushik Basu considers the dynamics that lead political leaders down the road to tyranny, paranoia, and aggression.
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    Xi’s the Boss

    Nina L. Khrushcheva says the Chinese leader's recent visit to Moscow was intended, first and foremost, to show who is in charge.
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    Can “Cooperative Rivalry” Work?

    Jean Pisani-Ferry worries that America and China will be unable to find common ground on preserving the global commons.
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    The Fed’s Role in the Bank Failures

    Raghuram G. Rajan & Viral V. Acharya show how the US central bank's liquidity policies created the conditions for runs on uninsured deposits.
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    Policymakers Keep Solving the Wrong Banking Problem

    Andrés Velasco argues that recent market turmoil has revealed that the sector’s main vulnerability is unavoidable.
  9. ito25_Chip SomodevillaGetty Images_yellen Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

    An Insolvency Iceberg?

    Takatoshi Ito considers the risk that other banks will experience liquidity problems as interest rates continue to rise.

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