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Viewpoint: Covid-19: Europeans Can Learn From Developing Countries
When looking at successful strategies, it is the experiences of other developed nations – like Germany and New Zealand – that are predominantly cited by journalists and politicians. There is an apparent unwillingness to learn from developing countries – a blind spot that fails to recognise that “their” local knowledge can be just as relevant to “our” developed world problems.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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COVID-19 and Higher Education: How Universities Are Leading the Recovery in Emerging Economies
Universities in emerging economies have shown they have a key role to play in the response to the coronavirus crisis, through both cutting-edge research and development (R&D) and pioneering approaches to teaching and studying.
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- Coronavirus, Education, Health Care
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Analysis: How Polio Eradication in Africa Can Inform the Global COVID-19 Response
The global health community recently celebrated the eradication of wild poliovirus from the African continent.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Pandemic Makes Tackling Global Woes More Critical Than Ever – Bill Gates
The coronavirus pandemic has wiped out progress on lofty goals such as ending world poverty and hunger in the next decade, but the economic damage of COVID-19 shows how badly such global development is needed, philanthropist Bill Gates said.
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Health Care
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Bill Gates: These Are the 2 Questions I Use To Tackle Every Big Problem From Microsoft To COVID-19
If you want to tackle problems the same way as Bill Gates, you need to start with two simple questions: “Who has dealt with this problem well? And what can we learn from them?”
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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BIMA Nabs $30 Million More for Micro- Health and Life Insurance Aimed at Emerging Markets
The coronavirus global health pandemic — and the new emphasis on social distancing to slow down the spread of COVID-19 — has put healthcare and tech services used to enable healthcare remotely under the spotlight.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Investing
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Africa Declared Free of Wild Polio in ‘Milestone’
Africa has been declared free from wild polio by the independent body, the Africa Regional Certification Commission.
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- Health Care
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- healthcare, vaccines, youth