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Sania Nishtar is CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.

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  1. Fifty Years of Immunization Success Call for 50 More
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    Fifty Years of Immunization Success Call for 50 More

    Apr 25, 2024 Sania Nishtar touts the remarkable results of global collaboration on routine vaccination and foresees continued progress.

  2. Digital-Payment Systems Could Revolutionize Health Care
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    Digital-Payment Systems Could Revolutionize Health Care

    Feb 21, 2023 Sania Nishtar sees rapid uptake of mobile wallets as the key to integrating the latest technology into essential services.

  3. Climate Policy Is Social Policy
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    Climate Policy Is Social Policy

    Nov 4, 2021 Sania Nishtar explains why Pakistan’s efforts to combat global warming go hand in hand with its anti-poverty programs.

  4. How Cash Transfers Prevent Lockdown Tragedies
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    How Cash Transfers Prevent Lockdown Tragedies

    Aug 19, 2020 Sania Nishtar explains how Pakistan emergency payments to households have mitigated the pandemic's socioeconomic fallout.

  5. Bringing Gender Equality to Global Public Health
    A nurse takes care of incubators at the premature baby ward of the pediatric hospital in Bangui FLORENT VERGNES/AFP/Getty Images

    Bringing Gender Equality to Global Public Health

    May 8, 2018 Helen Clark & Sania Nishtar share the findings of a new report that documents how major health organizations leave women behind.

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    The Way Forward in Syria

    Carl Bildt

    Governing Syria has never been a simple affair, given the country’s complex cultural, ethnic, and religious composition. The best chance the country has following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad is to follow the roadmap that the United Nations adopted in 2015.

     urges all parties involved to support the political roadmap that the United Nations adopted in 2015.
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    Crime Is Punishing Latin America’s Economies

    Nathalie Alvarado & Ana María Ibáñez explain how the problem acts as a tax on development – one that the region can no longer afford to pay.
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    China’s New Social Contract

    Ana Palacio highlights a fundamental shift in priorities brought about by slowing growth and changing public expectations.
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    The Energy Transition That Couldn’t

    Richard Haass & Carolyn Kissane

    Dominant intellectual frameworks persist until their limitations in describing reality become undeniable, paving the way for a new paradigm. The idea that the world can and will replace fossil fuels with renewables has reached that point.

     argue that replacing fossil fuels with renewables is an idea that has exhausted its utility.
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    Can Trump’s Tariff Threats Save Dollar Hegemony?

    Jeffrey Frankel warns that the US president-elect’s reckless rhetoric could undermine his stated objectives.
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    Can Industrial Policy Revive Manufacturing?

    Daniel Gros shows that Joe Biden’s subsidies failed to boost industrial production – and Donald Trump’s tariffs will, too.
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    Responsible Mining Can Advance Global Environmental Goals

    Mauricio Cabrera Leal urges global policymakers to establish mechanisms that promote ethical resource extraction.
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    The Missing Monetary-Policy Tool

    Johannes Boehm & Xavier Jaravel think that central banks should be prepared to carry out direct transfers to households as a last resort.
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    The Right Medicine for Pakistan’s Ailing Economy

    Aasim M. Husain thinks a reduced dose of austerity and more liquidity could help fix the country’s debt problem.

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