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Ethiopia – Balancing Water Demands and Increasing Climate Resilience: Establishing a Baseline Water Risk Assessment Model in Ethiopia (Zablon Adane, Tinebeb Yohannes and Eliza...

Water is essential to sustainable economic growth and climate change adaptation. Ethiopia’s growth and development are vulnerable to water security risks. Despite being known...

Space – CubeSat will sift asteroid secrets from reflected sunshine (ESA)

As ESA’s Hera mission for planetary defence probes the Didymos twin asteroid system, it will be joined by a pioneering pair of breadbox-sized ‘CubeSats’. Juventas will...

Space – Reprogrammable satellite shipped to launch site (ESA)

An advanced telecommunications satellite that can be completely repurposed in orbit has arrived at its launch site of Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. ESA -...

Peru – The management of mining revenue in Peru (Chloe Schalit, Supriya Sadagopan, Mario Picon, Results for Development, Brookings)

Peru is still experiencing the effects of a highly polarized run-off presidential election where the generation, distribution, and use of mining revenue rose to...

India – Transition paths towards better health outcomes in India: Optimizing the use of existing pooled government funds (Tarun Khanna, Nachiket Mor, and Sandhya...

We motivate this short piece by first reminding readers of India’s poor health outcomes and related vulnerability of her people to financial distress. The...

Ghana – Addressing youth unemployment in Ghana by supporting the agro-processing and tourism sectors (Ernest Aryeetey, Priscilla Twumasi Baffour, and Festus Ebo Turkson, Brookings)

As elsewhere in Africa, the issue of jobless growth in Ghana has become a major concern, particularly due to rising unemployment among the youth....

USA – The court’s Facebook decision shows why we need a digital regulatory agency (Tom Wheeler, Brookings)

Afederal district court judge’s dismissal of the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit brought against Facebook is graphic evidence that antitrust laws are not sufficient to protect...

Vietnam – An ideal public health model? Vietnam’s state-led, preventative, low-cost response to COVID-19 (Emma Willoughby, Brookings)

The world noticed Vietnam’s success in combating COVID-19 in 2020 as other countries struggled to quell infections and enact clear government policy. While Vietnam...

Ghana – Employment creation potential, labor skills requirements, and skill gaps for young people: Ghana case study (Ernest Aryeetey, Priscilla Twumasi Baffour, and Festus...

The issues of jobless growth and the poor performance of manufacturing have become major concerns in Africa. A new growth trajectory has emerged in...
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