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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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$25 Million Gift Launches Ambitious New Effort Tackling Poverty and Climate Change
The King Climate Action Initiative at J-PAL will develop large-scale climate-response programs for some of the world’s most vulnerable populations.
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- Coronavirus, Environment
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Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine: Will Emerging Economies Be Left Behind?
As various countries contend with a second wave of Covid-19 outbreaks, many emerging markets are pinning their hopes on a vaccine that will allow them to confidently reopen their economies without the fear of health services being overwhelmed.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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Viewpoint: The Pandemic Pain of Emerging Markets
As COVID-19 continues its global march, the whole world is paying the price for some countries' negligent and incompetent political leadership and the virtual breakdown of the rules-based multilateral order. But emerging and developing economies are likely to suffer the most.
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Health Care
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What 6 of the 7 Countries With the Most COVID-19 Cases Have in Common
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage around the world, some of the largest outbreaks are in countries that fall into one particular economic category. They're not rich. They're not poor. They're middle income.
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- Coronavirus
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- coronavirus, health care, SMEs, social impact
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