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Seth Berkley

Seth Berkley

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Seth Berkley is a former CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.

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  1. The Climate Crisis Is Also a Health Crisis
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    The Climate Crisis Is Also a Health Crisis

    Dec 1, 2022 Seth Berkley & Werner Hoyer explain why global leaders must urgently introduce equitable pandemic-response mechanisms.

  2. The G20 Must Recommit to COVAX
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    The G20 Must Recommit to COVAX

    Sep 3, 2021 Seth Berkley urges global leaders to support the COVID-19 vaccine-access facility in four crucial ways.

  3. The Added Value of Vaccination
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    The Added Value of Vaccination

    Jun 29, 2021 Seth Berkley shows how routine immunization programs in poorer countries help to improve global disease surveillance.

  4. A Moment of Truth in the Pandemic
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    A Moment of Truth in the Pandemic

    Sep 16, 2020 Seth Berkley, et al. believe that widespread participation in a new global vaccine-access facility would signal a turning point.

  5. The Fastest Way Out of the Pandemic
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    The Fastest Way Out of the Pandemic

    Jul 15, 2020 Seth Berkley, et al. argue that the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility is the key to overcoming the coronavirus.

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    Protests of Despair

    Slavoj Žižek sees the pro-Palestinian student demonstrations as a signal of a much deeper, widespread malaise.
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    The Rise of the Finternet

    Agustín Carstens & Nandan Nilekani foresee a world in which cheap, secure, and near-instantaneous financial transactions are available to all.
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    Don’t Fret About Green Subsidies

    Dani Rodrik sees no good argument against industrial policies that accelerate growth in decarbonization industries.
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    Europe’s Geoeconomic Competitiveness Challenge

    Daniel Gros highlights the security risks raised by the prolonged decline of the EU’s relative economic power.
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    How Exceptional Is China’s Crony-Capitalist Boom?

    Yuen Yuen Ang

    While both the American and Chinese Gilded Ages raised material standards of living for hundreds of millions of people, their endemic corruption produced radically unequal and unsustainable growth. Ultimately, both periods offer cautionary tales about unbridled crony capitalism, not models for blind emulation.

    explains how corruption both drove the country's GDP growth and sowed the seeds for its current economic problems.
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    Will India’s Election Destroy Its Democracy?

    Since taking power in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party have stoked Hindu nationalism, hollowed out India’s democracy, and overseen an economy that is probably performing far worse than official figures suggest. And yet Modi and the BJP are genuinely popular, making them likely – though not certain – to emerge victorious when the ongoing parliamentary election concludes in June.

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    The Unbearable Lightness of Anti-Zionism

    Shlomo Ben-Ami warns that demonizing all Israelis will only make peace less likely – though that may be the point.
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    How to Close the Gender Wage Gap

    Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir argues that Iceland’s experience lends further support to Nobel laureate economist Claudia Goldin’s research.
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    Getting the Pandemic Treaty Across the Finish Line

    Gordon Brown hopes negotiations will conclude this month, and pushes back on a last-minute wave of misinformation.

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