Smart Development

Anuradha Gupta shows how anti-vaxxers' misinformation threatens to hurt poor and vulnerable populations the most.

Mariana Mazzucato & Anthony Costello view the UK prime minister's plan for a testing "moonshot" as an appropriate ambition gone badly awry.

Mary Fitzgerald & Peter Geoghegan highlight the failures of governance and accountability behind the country's spiraling infection and death rates.

Anatole Manzi suggests several steps governments should take to maintain delivery of basic medical care.

Simon Johnson argues that COVID-19 testing at scale will still be necessary – but possible only at much lower cost.

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi & Adeeba Kamarulzaman urge scientists to unite in defense of evidence-based policies and interventions to combat the coronavirus.

Seth Berkley, et al. believe that widespread participation in a new global vaccine-access facility would signal a turning point.

Tony Blair shows why the entire world has economic and security stakes in modernizing the continent's food systems.