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Strive Masiyiwa is African Union Special Envoy on COVID-19 and Head of the African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team.

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  1. Bridging Africa's Health-Care Divide
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    Bridging Africa's Health-Care Divide

    Oct 29, 2021 Strive Masiyiwa & Gordon Brown call for immediate measures to deliver vaccines, followed by longer-term investments in health infrastructure.

  2. Funding Africa’s Education Revolution
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    Funding Africa’s Education Revolution

    Oct 11, 2018 Strive Masiyiwa unveils a new facility that will unlock $10 billion to help poor countries strengthen their school systems.

  3. The Power of Mini-Grids
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    The Power of Mini-Grids

    Jun 2, 2017 Strive Masiyiwa & Richard Branson propose a flexible, fast, and low-cost solution to Africa's energy challenge.

  4. Africa’s Farms of the Future
    Strive Masiyiwa, Africa’s Farms, agricultural-policies, economic growth needs investments to occur. Marwa Morgan/flickr

    Africa’s Farms of the Future

    Jun 23, 2014 Strive Masiyiwa calls for agricultural policies and investments to sustain the continent's economic growth.

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    Price Stability vs. Financial Stability?

    Willem H. Buiter

    If the US Federal Reserve raises its policy interest rate by as much as is necessary to rein in inflation, it will most likely further depress the market value of the long-duration securities parked on many banks' balance sheets. So be it.

     thinks central banks can achieve both, despite the occurrence of a liquidity crisis amid high inflation.
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    Fifty Years of Floating Currencies

    Jeffrey Frankel explains why the shift toward exchange-rate flexibility after 1973 was not a policy failure, as many believed.
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    What Do America’s Spies Really Think About China?

    Kent Harrington thinks the intelligence community’s annual threat assessment should have delved deeper on the issue.
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    Waking Up to the World’s Water Crisis

    Quentin Grafton, et al. see three overarching priorities for the first global water conference in almost a half-century.
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    Peace Requires Betrayal

    Shlomo Ben-Ami shows why Ukraine and Russia will most likely have to pursue an unpopular endgame to stop the bloodshed.
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    Lessons from the SVB Collapse

    Lucrezia Reichlin

    Although Silicon Valley Bank was not deemed to be systemically important, its insolvency forced the US Federal Reserve to head off systemic contagion and exposed the inadequacy of the FDIC’s partial deposit insurance regime. The financial-stability framework adopted after the 2008 crisis obviously needs another overhaul.

     considers what the bank’s failure should mean for the current financial-stability framework.
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    It’s the Banking Regulations, Stupid

    Antonio Foglia traces the Silicon Valley Bank failure back to fundamental flaws in the prevailing governance framework.
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    Confronting the Global Water Crisis

    Mariana Mazzucato, et al. offer a seven-point blueprint for preserving one of the planet’s most important natural systems.
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    Revisiting America’s War of Choice in Iraq

    Richard Haass considers the enduring lessons from a foreign intervention that was both ill-conceived and poorly executed.

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