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The World Bank’s recipe for irrelevance
By Devesh Kapur - Sep 21, 2016 - Last updated at Sep 21, 2016 22:41
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim’s nomination for a second term is inexorably moving forward with a lack of transparency that has become al ...
Water — imperative for development and security
By Erik Ullenhag and Anders Jägerskog - Sep 20, 2016 - Last updated at Sep 20, 2016 22:50
A few weeks ago, the world’s largest annual global water policy meeting, the World Water Week (www.worldwaterweek.org), was held in Sto ...
Investment or tax — which should prevail?
By Firas T. Malhas - Sep 19, 2016 - Last updated at Sep 19, 2016 22:35
Under a new regulation adopted in 2016 regarding investments by “non-Jordanians”, a “non-Jordanian” company that is registered outside Jorda ...
Daesh’s problem with women
By Fatima Sadiqi - Sep 18, 2016 - Last updated at Sep 18, 2016 22:59
It is telling that women feature heavily in the Daesh’s rise and fall.While Daesh’s craven massacre of Yazidi women in Iraq and Syria helped ...
The future of computing
By Bruno Michel - Sep 17, 2016 - Last updated at Sep 17, 2016 22:37
Ever since American computer scientist John McCarthy coined the term “Artificial Intelligence” in 1955, the public has imagined a future of ...
100 years of innovation and plans for a century more
By Bernard Dunn - Sep 04, 2016 - Last updated at Sep 04, 2016 23:00
Since July 15, 1916, we have been making the impossible possible.From producing a single canvas-and-wood airplane to transforming how we fly ...
Mideastern health systems
By Ali H. Mokdad - Aug 31, 2016 - Last updated at Aug 31, 2016 22:34
Much of the progress in the Arab countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in recent decades appears to have been reversed by the ...
In defence of germ line gene therapy
By Henry I. Miller - Aug 31, 2016 - Last updated at Aug 31, 2016 22:33
Human gene therapy has been one of the most ambitious goals of biotechnology since the advent of molecular techniques for genetic modificati ...
Kazakhstan — 25 years of building the model of a nuclear weapon-free state
By Azamat Berdibay - Aug 29, 2016 - Last updated at Aug 29, 2016 22:27
Kazakhstan’s senate, parliament and ministry of foreign affairs, and the Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNN ...
Healthcare innovation in the global south
By Shams El Arifeen - Aug 25, 2016 - Last updated at Aug 25, 2016 22:20
Children die from preventable and treatable conditions like diarrhoea and pneumonia every day, with the developing world accounting for the ...

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