Taking Vaccines the Last Mile
A four-year-old girl recently came to the emergency room where I work as a resident doctor. She was writhing in pain, her body convulsed...
How Can We Tax Footloose Multinationals?
In the last few years, globalization has come under renewed attack. Some of the criticisms may be misplaced, but one is spot on: globalization...
A Mixed Economic Bag in 2019
After the synchronized global economic expansion of 2017 came the asynchronous growth of 2018, when most countries other than the United States started to...
The Case for Digital Identification
Worldwide, more than four billion people are connected to the Internet, spending an average of roughly six hours per day on Internet-enabled devices and...
Data-Driven Gender Equality
At the current rate of progress, it will take more than 200 years to achieve gender equality and female empowerment at work. In many...
Harnessing the Digital Revolution for Sustainable Development
Financial digitalization — the digital revolution’s system-level transformation of the entire financial ecosystem — could catalyze global efforts to finance sustainable development. According to...
Let’s Get Real About Purpose
One year ago, BlackRock chairman and CEO Larry Fink wrote a letter to 500 CEOs asking them to rethink their sense of purpose. “To...
Lethal consequences of misclassifying Dolphins
The annual dolphin hunt in the Japanese town of Taiji began in September. By next March, despite global condemnation and mounting criticism from Japan’s...
Uniting Africa for Power
African countries are increasingly coming together. A landmark free-trade agreement was concluded earlier this year. East Africa has made great progress on free movement of people....
Latest Climate Science Must Mobilize, not Paralyse Us
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations body tasked with providing scientific evidence and consensus on climate change and its implications...
