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The 2018 United Nations General Assembly

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At the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly this year, the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 and global public health are among the top issues on the agenda.

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  1. Africa’s Future Depends on Improving Education
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    Africa’s Future Depends on Improving Education

    Oct 1, 2018 Aliko Dangote urges the continent's governments to boost investment in quality schools for all.

  2. Education’s Moonshot Moment
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    Education’s Moonshot Moment

    Sep 26, 2018 Gordon Brown shows that existing aid efforts are not nearly enough to ensure that every child has a seat in a classroom.

  3. Closing the Political Gender Gap
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    Closing the Political Gender Gap

    Sep 25, 2018 Anne-Marie Slaughter & Francesca Binda describe a wide range of initiatives proven to boost female representation in government.

  4. Normalizing Abortion
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    Normalizing Abortion

    Sep 25, 2018 Françoise Girard urges governments worldwide to heed women's demands for reproductive justice and bodily autonomy.

  5. Governments Must Stand Up for Health
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    Governments Must Stand Up for Health

    Sep 21, 2018 Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus calls on world leaders to redouble their efforts to tackle tuberculosis and noncommunicable diseases.

  6. PS [In Depth]: Women’s Economic Empowerment
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    PS [In Depth]: Women’s Economic Empowerment

    Sep 18, 2018 PS editors examine the most common obstacles holding back 50% of the workforce in many developing countries.

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    The Language of Political Control

    Robert Skidelsky views recent linguistic innovations as manipulative efforts to compel “correct” thought and perception.
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    Globalization vs. Democracy

    Kaushik Basu highlights the contradictions and vulnerabilities inherent in the current international order.
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    The West’s New Infrastructure Imperative

    Diane Coyle explains why a broader conception of the term could reflect a renewed interest in investing in the future.
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    An Iran-Israel War?

    Iran’s mass ballistic missile and drone attack on Israel last week raised anew the specter of a widening Middle East war that draws in Iran and its proxies, as well as Western countries like the United States. The urgent need to defuse tensions – starting by ending Israel’s war in Gaza and pursuing a lasting political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – is obvious, but can it be done?

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    What a Climate-Aligned IMF Would Look Like

    Mohamed Nasheed & Rakesh Mohan explain how the managing director can fully position the institution to help the most vulnerable countries.
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    The Key to Transforming African Health

    Jayati Ghosh highlights efforts to foster scientific innovation and drug manufacturing on the continent.
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    China’s Rebalancing Imperative

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    The most successful development stories almost always involve major shifts in the sources of economic growth, which in turn allow economies to reinvent themselves out of necessity or by design. In China, the interplay of mounting external pressures, lagging household consumption, and falling productivity will increasingly shape China’s policy choices in the years ahead.

     explains why the Chinese authorities should switch to a consumption- and productivity-led growth model.
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    From Welfare State to Safe State in Latin America

    Jorge G. Castañeda & Carlos Ominami

    Designing a progressive anti-violence strategy that delivers the safety for which a huge share of Latin Americans crave is perhaps the most difficult challenge facing many of the region’s governments. But it is also the most important.

     urge the region’s progressives to start treating security as an essential component of social protection.
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    The Urgency of Sovereign-Debt Restructuring

    José Antonio Ocampo highlights the need for a comprehensive mechanism to deliver relief to low- and middle-income countries.

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