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By Project Syndicate - Jun 01,2020
By Carlos Alvarado Quesada and Tedros Adhanom GhebreyesusSAN JOSÉ — The COVID-19 pandemic began less than six months ago, but we have already learned a great deal about the disease.
By Project Syndicate - May 07,2020
LONDON/NAIROBI – Every year, some nine million people worldwide, equivalent to the population of Austria, die of hunger or hunger-related diseases. That is tragic enough, but COVID-19’s disruption of food supply chains risks doubling this number in 2020.
By Project Syndicate - Apr 27,2020
By Carl Manlan and Henri-Michel YéréLOMÉ/BASEL – COVID-19 poses the greatest threat yet to the systems of international integration instituted during the twentieth century.
By Project Syndicate - Apr 25,2020
By Tolullah Oni, Gillian Marcelle, and Tau TavengwaCAMBRIDGE – The COVID-19 pandemic will have dangerous, far-reaching implications long into the future, especially if it derails recent improvements in many countries’ historically weak health systems.
By Project Syndicate - Apr 23,2020
By Joseph E.
By Project Syndicate - Apr 11,2020
By George P. Shultz , Michael J. Boskin and John B. TaylorSTANFORD – The unprecedented shutdown of much of the US economy that has been ordered by federal, state and local governments is understandable given the need to slow the coronavirus’s spread.
By Project Syndicate - Apr 09,2020
LONDON — This week, leaders from medicine, economics, politics and civil society are uniting to demand immediate and coordinated international action, in the next few days, to mobilise the resources needed to address the COVID-19 crisis, prevent the current health catastrophe fro
By Project Syndicate - Apr 09,2020
NEW YORK/PARIS – There is no historical precedent for the current worldwide shutdown of most “non-essential” economic activities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nor do policymakers have any experience of trying to engineer a smooth recovery after a shock of this magnitude.
By Project Syndicate - Mar 28,2020
By Andrew Sheng, Xiao GengHONG KONG – The world is at war. The enemy is resilient, ruthless and unpredictable, with no regard for race, nationality, ideology or wealth.
By Project Syndicate - Mar 28,2020
By Susan Papp, Marcy Hersh NEW YORK – When pandemics strike, world leaders and health responders must adapt quickly to the looming threat.

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