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A World Without AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria

Project Syndicate Posted on January 16, 2020January 16, 2020

The global focus on ending AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria by 2030 has proven tremendously effective in rapidly scaling up access to treatment in developing countries. But if the world is to meet these ambitious goals, national governments and international development institutions must work together to build stronger health systems.

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Natural-born climate commitments

Project Syndicate Posted on January 9, 2020January 10, 2020

Although most countries have acknowledged the threat posed by climate change and established targets for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, the international community still has not made the same level of commitment to environmental conservation. Yet it is our natural ecosystems that will save us from catastrophe – if we let them. SALLY JEWELL explains.

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Closing the technology and education gap

Project Syndicate Posted on December 19, 2019January 10, 2020

As advances in artificial intelligence and automation continue, the distance between high-skilled elites and everyone else will only grow. To counter this problem, we should be using new technologies to educate more people at lower cost argue former Prime Minister GORDON BROWN and ANANT AGARWAL.

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Why we strike again

Project Syndicate Posted on December 12, 2019December 4, 2019

After more than a year of grim scientific projections and growing activism, world leaders and the public alike are increasingly recognizing the severity and urgency of the climate crisis. And yet nothing has been done, argue GRETA THUNBERG , LUISA NEUBAUER and ANGELA VALENZUELA.

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Goats Against Climate Change

Project Syndicate Posted on November 28, 2019November 19, 2019

As climate change continues, severe weather events – from cyclones to droughts – will become increasingly frequent and intense. But there is a simple way to boost climate resilience for farmers in vulnerable regions: goats.

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The Next Great Transformation

Project Syndicate Posted on November 14, 2019November 18, 2019

The world’s ability to manage global crises such as climate change depends on our ability to achieve broad-based economic prosperity and stability.

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Why rich cities rebel

Project Syndicate Posted on October 31, 2019October 30, 2019

Having lost touch with public sentiment, JEFFREY D. SACHS explains how officials in Paris, Hong Kong, and Santiago failed to anticipate that a seemingly modest policy actions would trigger a massive social explosion.

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How to rethink capitalism

Project Syndicate Posted on October 17, 2019October 15, 2019

The 2008 financial crisis, together with failed efforts to combat climate change and sharply rising inequality, has frayed the neoliberal consensus that has prevailed in much of the West for more than two generations.

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Investing in Frontline Health Workers

Project Syndicate Posted on October 3, 2019October 15, 2019

The power of frontline health workers to improve global health has been proven time and again.

Yet the world continues to underestimate their capabilities and contributions, with severe consequences for them and the communities they serve

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Corporations with a conscience

Project Syndicate Posted on September 5, 2019September 5, 2019

Since the breakdown of managerial capitalism in the 1970s, a corporate-governance model based on shareholder primacy has reigned supreme. But now that America’ s top CEOs have publicly embraced a broader “stakeholder” model, is capitalism entering a new chapter?

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