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Strive Masiyiwa is African Union Special Envoy on COVID-19 and Head of the African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team.

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  1. Bridging Africa's Health-Care Divide
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    Bridging Africa's Health-Care Divide

    Oct 29, 2021 Strive Masiyiwa & Gordon Brown call for immediate measures to deliver vaccines, followed by longer-term investments in health infrastructure.

  2. Funding Africa’s Education Revolution
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    Funding Africa’s Education Revolution

    Oct 11, 2018 Strive Masiyiwa unveils a new facility that will unlock $10 billion to help poor countries strengthen their school systems.

  3. The Power of Mini-Grids
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    The Power of Mini-Grids

    Jun 2, 2017 Strive Masiyiwa & Richard Branson propose a flexible, fast, and low-cost solution to Africa's energy challenge.

  4. Africa’s Farms of the Future
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    Africa’s Farms of the Future

    Jun 23, 2014 Strive Masiyiwa calls for agricultural policies and investments to sustain the continent's economic growth.

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    Defining Success in Ukraine

    Richard Haass

    Jake Sullivan, the US National Security Adviser, has expressed the view that 2025 could be the time for Ukraine to once again mount a counter-offensive against Russian troops. Given the strategic math, that would be a serious mistake.

     calls for a shift to a defensive posture and efforts to bring about a long-term ceasefire.
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    A Unified Western Strategy for Ukraine

    Anders Åslund proposes a maximalist approach to military aid to replace the current piecemeal injections of old weapons.
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    Russia’s Battle of the Ministries

    Nina L. Khrushcheva sees a high-ranking official's recent arrest as a sign of declining confidence in Vladimir Putin's leadership.
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    The “Billions to Trillions” Charade

    Jayati Ghosh

    Multilateral development banks and international financial institutions argue that mobilizing private investment is crucial to meeting developing economies’ needs for climate and development finance. But boosting government revenues is far more likely to generate the trillions of dollars needed to close these financing gaps.

     explains why using development banks' resources to incentivize private-sector finance is unlikely to succeed.
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    Leveraging Islamic Finance for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure

    Muhammad Al Jasser shows how a hybrid financing model could help fund desperately needed projects in the developing world.
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    Adekeye Adebajo on the Non-Aligned Movement, United Nations peacekeeping, African institution-building, and more

    Adekeye Adebajo argues that Israel’s war in Gaza is accelerating the trend toward global apartheid, highlights the strengths and weaknesses of United Nations peacekeeping missions, criticizes the militarization of US engagement with Africa, and more.
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    Europe’s Non-European Elections

    Alberto Alemanno highlights structural flaws that impede the European Union’s ability to address its current and future challenges.
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    A Turning Point for Clean Cooking

    Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak & Joseph Nganga urge global leaders to provide the financing to end a practice with dire effects for health and the climate.
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    Why the US Can’t Win the Trade War With China – and Shouldn’t Try

    Qiyuan Xu argues that high capital outflows – largely a result of US policy – have resulted in an undervalued renminbi.

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