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    What to Do About Ukraine’s Brain Drain

    Giacomo Anastasia & Tito Boeri explain how the country can restore lost human capital after the war ends and reconstruction has begun.
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    What We Can Do About Food Insecurity

    Kate Hampton & David Miliband identify four areas where progress is needed to mitigate the worsening global hunger and nutrition crisis.
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    To Prevent the Next Pandemic, Follow the Science

    Marisa Peyre, et al. outline several steps policymakers can take to restore trust in expertise and increase transparency.
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    Financing Family Planning in Low-Income Countries

    Lia Tadesse shows how Ethiopia has embraced innovative funding methods to ensure an adequate supply of contraceptives.
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    Antibiotic Shortages Are Fueling Antimicrobial Resistance

    Manica Balasegaram warns that increasingly common stockouts of vital medicines are contributing to the AMR crisis.
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    Unlocking Health Technology’s Potential for All

    Mariana Mazzucato explains how to ensure more equitable global access to critical innovations like mRNA vaccines.
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    Breaking Free from Polio

    Andrew Stein foresees the eradication of variant poliovirus by emulating the fight against the wild version.
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    Compensating Community-Health Workers

    Lennie Bazira & Prossy Muyingo explain why the largely female workforce must be fairly paid for providing essential health-care services.
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    How to Address Global Hunger

    Jayati Ghosh explains how price-stabilization measures can address the root causes of rising food insecurity.

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    The New Normal for Central Banks

    Lucrezia Reichlin asks why the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank keep providing liquidity directly to banks.
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    The False Choice Between Palestinian and Jewish Liberation

    Shlomo Ben-Ami

    The prevailing narrative that frames Israel as a colonial power suppressing Palestinians’ struggle for statehood grossly oversimplifies a complicated conflict and inadvertently vindicates the region’s most oppressive regimes. Achieving a durable, lasting peace requires moving beyond such facile analogies.

    rejects the facile moralism of those who view the ongoing war through the narrow lens of decolonization.
  3. buruma208_Patrick van KatwijkBSR AgencyGetty Images_wilders1 Patrick van KatwijkBSR AgencyGetty Images

    The Rage of the Outsiders

    Ian Buruma

    The far-right populist Geert Wilders’ election victory in the Netherlands reflects the same sentiment that powered Brexit and Donald Trump’s candidacy in 2016. But such outcomes could not happen without the cynicism displayed over the past few decades by traditional conservative parties.

    shows what Geert Wilders has in common with other ultra-nationalist politicians, past and present.
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    Protecting Gaza’s Children

    Nurul Izzah Anwar & Yolanda Augustin urge the international community to support the young Palestinians bearing the brunt of the war.
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    Loss and Damage as a Common Climate Cause

    Naveeda Khan explains why so many developing countries have not balked at a major oil producer hosting COP28.
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    Putin’s Killer Patriotism

    Nina L. Khrushcheva highlights the Kremlin’s growing dependence on violent criminals to fight its war in Ukraine.
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    The Technologies African Farmers Need

    Hippolyte Fofack urges policymakers to follow Ethiopia’s lead and invest in irrigation, mechanization, and fertilizers.
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    Hard Truths About Green Industrial Policy

    Ilias Alami, et al. warn that win-win narratives obscure the difficult trade-offs involved in state-led decarbonization projects.
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    Making European Strategic Autonomy Work

    Charles Powell, et al. assess the strengths and weaknesses of a major new policy and strategy blueprint.

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