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The challenges facing developing countries – from providing clean water to fighting infectious diseases – are jeopardizing their economic growth prospects, on which the global economy’s health increasingly depends. Project Syndicate, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, provides analysis of the trends and debates shaping developing countries’ potential – and the global economy’s prospects.

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  1. Fast-Tracking a Lassa Fever Vaccine
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    Fast-Tracking a Lassa Fever Vaccine

    Jun 1, 2023 Oyeronke Oyebanji outlines what West African governments can learn from the development and distribution of the COVID-19 jab.

  2. Backsliding on Maternal Mortality
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    Backsliding on Maternal Mortality

    May 25, 2023 Natalia Kanem urges governments to take immediate, proven steps to ensure that childbirth is a time of life, not death.

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  4. The Only Way to Eliminate Polio
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    The Only Way to Eliminate Polio

    May 17, 2023 Florence Gyembuzie Wongnaah argues that the virus will be eradicated only when the world stops using the oral vaccine.

  5. Realism About Investment Treaties
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    Realism About Investment Treaties

    May 3, 2023 Andrés Arauz & Guillaume Long see much reason – but even more hypocrisy – in European countries’ exit from the Energy Charter Treaty.

  6. Global Health Institutions Need Africa
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    Global Health Institutions Need Africa

    Apr 27, 2023 Ahmed Ogwell Ouma urges international organizations to make room at the table for the continent’s interests.

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    The Ukraine-Russia Culture War

    Yuriy Gorodnichenko & Ilona Sologoub survey the heated battles that have been playing out far from the physical battlefield.
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    The Poverty of AI Pessimism

    Jim O'Neill questions the increasingly popular sentiment that the technology will be economically destabilizing.
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    The Post-American Middle East

    Mark Leonard explains how the region became a laboratory for a future in which the US is not the sole hegemon.
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    How to Think About Climate-Tech Solutions

    Gernot Wagner offers lessons for navigating a field that is fraught with hype, unintended consequences, and other pitfalls.
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    Can the ECB Escape Its Own Trap?

    Otmar Issing examines the policy dilemma facing central banks as they try to shrink their bloated balance sheets.
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    The Democrats’ Disastrous Debt Deal

    James K. Galbraith decries the party’s willingness to play along with the Republicans’ bad-faith politicking.
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    Building a Biotech Alliance of Democracies

    Jafer Ahmad & Abigail Kukura explains how the US and its allies and partners can maintain leadership in a strategically vital sector.
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    The Transatlantic Carbon-Pricing Clash

    Daniel Gros predicts that the opposing approaches taken by the US and the EU will lead to trade and political frictions.
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    The Geopolitics of Nature

    Simon Zadek highlights the fatal flaw in green “solutions” like the EU’s new deforestation legislation.

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