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Joel E. Cohen

Joel E. Cohen

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Joel E. Cohen, Professor of Populations at The Rockefeller University and Columbia University, is the author of How Many People Can the Earth Support? (W. W. Norton & Company, 1996).

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  1. Financing Childhood Growth
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    Financing Childhood Growth

    Jul 14, 2023 Joel E. Cohen & John E. Rogers outline how development impact bonds focused on nutrition interventions could end stunting in children.

  2. How to Count Humans
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    How to Count Humans

    Aug 13, 2020 Joel E. Cohen examines a major new study forecasting population growth for the rest of this century.

  3. Secondary Schools’ Primary Importance
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    Secondary Schools’ Primary Importance

    Dec 18, 2014 Kamal Ahmad & Joel E. Cohen argue that post-primary education in the developing world benefits all levels of society.

  4. A Seismic Crime
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    A Seismic Crime

    Feb 2, 2012 Joel E. Cohen

  5. Bombs, Books, and Bucks

    Bombs, Books, and Bucks

    Jul 7, 2005 David E. Bloom & Joel E. Cohen

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    A Big Defeat for Big Tech

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Tech companies know that if there is an open, democratic debate about data security, consumers’ concerns about digital safeguards will win out. And while the industry's lobbyists tried to ensure that no such debate could ever occur, one of their more cynical moves has now been exposed and thwarted.

    details how the industry tried to slip extraordinary protections against regulation into US trade agreements.
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    Haiti’s Proud Boys

    Slavoj Žižek

    If we measure a failed state by the cracks in the edifice of its power, reflected in brewing ideological civil wars, deadlocked assemblies, and increasingly insecure public spaces, we must recognize that the United States is not so unlike Haiti. Both have given rise to violent gangs with political ambitions.

    warns that rich Western democracies are not immune to politically motivated gang violence.
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    Unity Is Europe’s Greatest Asset

    Connie Hedegaard emphasizes the importance of stability amid persistent economic and geopolitical crises.
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    The Truth About US Immigration

    Nancy Qian warns that overheated campaign-season rhetoric is dangerously polarizing and ultimately self-defeating.
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    The Zombification of Political Parties

    Jan-Werner Mueller argues that Donald Trump’s capture of the GOP’s organizational machinery recalls authoritarian tactics elsewhere.
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    The Economic Consequences of Legal Behavior

    Kaushik Basu highlights the potential benefits of emphasizing adherence to the spirit of laws, if not their letter.
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    For Nigeria’s Schools, Safety Must Come First

    Gordon Brown writes that the latest mass abduction of students underscores the dilemma facing parents throughout the country.
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    Give Women with Disabilities a Chance

    Nkechi S. Owoo explains what is needed to protect and empower one of the world’s most vulnerable demographic groups.
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    How Capitalism Became a Threat to Democracy

    Mordecai Kurz examines the economic policies and market dynamics that have ushered in America's Second Gilded Age.

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