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Backsliding on maternal mortality
By Natalia Kanem - May 29, 2023 - Last updated at May 29, 2023 22:05
NEW YORK — In 2020, an estimated 287,000 women died in pregnancy, childbirth, or soon after delivering, according to the latest data from th ...
The climate loss and damage fund is coming
By Sameh Shoukry - May 29, 2023 - Last updated at May 29, 2023 22:04
CAIRO — Last November’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, concluded on a historic high note, with ...
Teaching must not inhibit learning
By Javier Arguello - May 28, 2023 - Last updated at May 28, 2023 22:21
Assume for a moment that the doctor has warned you that if you do not exercise, your life will be in danger. ...
China and India have fewer people than the UN thinks
By Yi Fuxian - May 23, 2023 - Last updated at May 23, 2023 22:21
MADISON, WISCONSIN — In April, the United Nations estimated that India had overtaken China as the world’s most populous country. ...
Walking our talk on climate action
By William Ruto - May 21, 2023 - Last updated at May 21, 2023 22:21
NAIROBI — Last year in Berlin, the great Kenyan long-distance runner Eliud Kipchoge broke the world marathon record, clocking 02:01:09 and b ...
Simon Johnson on stablecoins, artificial intelligence, inequality, and more
By Simon Johnson - May 21, 2023 - Last updated at May 21, 2023 22:20
Simon Johnson Says More… Project Syndicate (PS): Last November, you defended Gary Gensler, the chair of the US Securities and Exchange ...
Shifting the inflation goalposts
By Gene Frieda - May 20, 2023 - Last updated at May 20, 2023 22:25
LONDON — As the most aggressive wave of monetary tightening in four decades slows the world’s largest economies, a growing number of analyst ...
The only way to eliminate polio
By Florence Gyembuzie Wongnaah - May 20, 2023 - Last updated at May 20, 2023 22:24
STOCKHOLM — When Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine was found to be safe and effective in 1955, following a successful trial involving nearly two mi ...
Winning the cancer war in Sub-Saharan Africa
By Miriam Mutebi - May 18, 2023 - Last updated at May 18, 2023 23:17
 NAIROBI — Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity, kill 41 million people per ye ...
5G – a key driver of Jordan’s digital future
By Faisal Qamhiyah and Kevin Murphy - May 18, 2023 - Last updated at May 18, 2023 11:10
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is witnessing a fast-paced digital transformation. ...

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