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Seth Berkley

Seth Berkley

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Seth Berkley is a former CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.

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  1. The Climate Crisis Is Also a Health Crisis
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    The Climate Crisis Is Also a Health Crisis

    Dec 1, 2022 Seth Berkley & Werner Hoyer explain why global leaders must urgently introduce equitable pandemic-response mechanisms.

  2. The G20 Must Recommit to COVAX
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    The G20 Must Recommit to COVAX

    Sep 3, 2021 Seth Berkley urges global leaders to support the COVID-19 vaccine-access facility in four crucial ways.

  3. The Added Value of Vaccination
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    The Added Value of Vaccination

    Jun 29, 2021 Seth Berkley shows how routine immunization programs in poorer countries help to improve global disease surveillance.

  4. A Moment of Truth in the Pandemic
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    A Moment of Truth in the Pandemic

    Sep 16, 2020 Seth Berkley, et al. believe that widespread participation in a new global vaccine-access facility would signal a turning point.

  5. The Fastest Way Out of the Pandemic
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    The Fastest Way Out of the Pandemic

    Jul 15, 2020 Seth Berkley, et al. argue that the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility is the key to overcoming the coronavirus.

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    Trump at the Gates

    Joschka Fischer urges Europeans to recognize that they are now on their own in an increasingly dangerous world.
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    The End of Progress?

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Though the United States has long led the world in advancing basic science and technology, it is hard to see how this can continue under President Donald Trump and the country’s ascendant oligarchy. America’s rejection of Enlightenment values will have dire consequences.

    predicts that Donald Trump’s second administration will be defined by its rejection of Enlightenment values.
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    China’s Trump Dilemma

    Yanis Varoufakis

    Will the China hawks in Donald Trump’s administration railroad him into a confrontation that transcends tariffs and embraces financial sanctions of the type the US and the European Union imposed on Russia? If they do, China's leaders will have to decide whether to decouple from the dollar-based international monetary system.

    thinks the real choice facing Chinese leaders may be whether to challenge the dollar's hegemony head-on.
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    The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap

    Pascal Lamy, et al. explain how investments in African agri-food systems can advance many of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
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    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.
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    The TikTok Boomerang

    Angela Huyue Zhang thinks the US government's ban on the app has left it in an untenable position.

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