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A healthy obsession: Why the United Nations must act on healthcare ... now
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A healthy obsession: Why the United Nations must act on healthcare ... now

When Larry Summers and 266 other economists lobbied the UN for change, it wasn’t filled with the stereotypical phrases you would hear from a hard-headed economist. Summers and his colleagues talked about one topic: health. Health is an oft-neglected subject in discussions of economic growth in developing countries; access
Sep 29, 2015 4 min read
A slow crawl up from death
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A slow crawl up from death

The year 1300. The agrarian society of the High Middle Ages was in full swing; the peasant population worked tirelessly, toiling and sweating away on the farms owned by their lords. Merchants, the pioneers of international trade, were becoming more and more commonplace too. They brought the commodities made by
Aug 24, 2015 3 min read
Pondering pharmaceutical patents
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Pondering pharmaceutical patents

There lies a vast degree of difference in the living standards and Human Development Index rankings between countries today. How can we explain this? Research has shown that statistically, it is not attributable to natural endowments but more so to the inherent quality of institutions [2]. This can be measured
May 2, 2014 4 min read
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