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  • Solomon Islands

    Healthcare starts with the Basics of Smelly Business

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    When we talk about healthcare in Solomon Islands, it’s back to the very basics. It’s more basic than doctors, hospitals or access to medical supplies. My visit to a coastal village in Ngela, Central Islands Province, really opened my eyes to how the absence of proper sanitation affects people’s health […]

  • Dominoes in Philadelphia

    Contagion

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    With ever-stronger bonds across borders and oceans, an economic crisis in one part of the world is bound to impact others. How can we ensure that our growing connectivity makes each of us stronger and more resilient to crises?

  • Mexico and the 2008 Financial Crisis, from Flu to Pneumonia

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    In early 2008 preceding the American economic crisis, former Mexican Treasury Secretary Agustín Carstens stated that the effects of such a recession on the Mexican economy would be “a simple flu rather than a pneumonia.” It only took a few months to prove how wrong he was. The deep interconnection […]

  • Papua New Guinea and the game of mining: who wins? who loses?

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    Hot. Stuffy. Noisy. White man dressed in checkered shirt and jeans. Oh and there’s another one. And another one. Some carrying brief cases and laptop bags.  Some burying their faces in newspapers. Some intensely engaged in conversations on their mobile phones. This is a typical scene at the Jackson Airport […]