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Wednesday 28/November/2018 15:51 PM

Closing the TB funding gap

In the 25 years since tuberculosis (TB) was declared a global-health emergency, policymakers and health-care professionals have devoted considerable time...

Wednesday 28/November/2018 15:29 PM

Pollution by the numbers

The Great Chinese Famine, which peaked in 1960, was the world’s largest on record. But the effects of that famine – including its toll of more than 30...

Wednesday 28/November/2018 14:47 PM

Nationalists of the world, unite?

Steve Bannon’s extensive travels in Europe this year have not drawn as much attention as they should have, given that he is the key theoretician of US...

Tuesday 27/November/2018 15:56 PM

Climate change, markets, and Marxism

Brazil’s new foreign minister, Ernesto Araújo, is on record as believing that climate change is a plot launched by “cultural Marxists” to stifle...

Tuesday 27/November/2018 15:41 PM

The promise of multi-shift schooling

The need to uphold the right to education has gotten a lot of attention in recent years. Ensuring “inclusive and equitable quality education” for all is...

Tuesday 27/November/2018 15:24 PM

How Poland could return to the EU fold

Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party has finally taken steps to comply with a European Court of Justice (ECJ) decree ordering it to reverse some of...

Monday 26/November/2018 15:21 PM

Food security rests on trade

From farm to fork, the international community is facing growing challenges in eradicating hunger and malnutrition. And yet while some parts of the world...