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Iran – Iran Has a New President. What Does That Mean for the Nuclear Deal? (Ray Takeyh, CFR)

Ebrahim Raisi, a staunch regime loyalist, can be expected to follow through on talks to revive the nuclear deal but rebuff attempts to further...

Climate Change/Food Security – How to Transform Food Systems in the Face of Climate Change (Rebecca Carter, WRI)

Climate change is already undermining food systems in many parts of the world, contributing to a rise in global hunger and threatening the livelihoods...

Climate Change/Food Security – Food Systems at Risk: Transformative Adaptation for Long-Term Food Security (Rebecca Carter, Namrata Ginoya, Richard Choularton, Tyler Ferdinand, Helen Ding...

This report examines how climate change is impacting agriculture and threatening national and global food systems, particularly in climate hotspots, and how these trends...

Vaccine/Pandemic/G7 – The G7 Vaccine Charade (James K. Galbraith, Project-Syndicate)

The US and Europe are offering low- and middle-income countries crumbs, so that they can protect their billionaires, their pharmaceutical lobbies, and their campaign...

Vaccine/Pandemic – Vaccine Hesitancy or Systemic Racism? (Tian Johnson, Stephaun E. Wallace, Maaza Seyoum, Project-Syndicate)

Minority communities and developing-country populations may approach health services cautiously – and with good reason, given the medical profession's history of inhumanity. But, by...

Climate Risk Analytics – New Frontiers in Climate-Risk Analytics (Paul Munday, Michael Wilkins, Project-Syndicate)

There currently is no perfect solution for assessing the financial effects of physical climate change, but this should not be an excuse for inaction....

Brexit – Brexit’s Collateral Damage (Chris Patten, Project-Syndicate)

Five years after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, the costs of that decision are becoming clearer. Most perniciously, trust in...

Pandemic/Women’s Employment – How is COVID-19 affecting women’s employment? Evidence from the World Bank’s Gender Innovation Labs (Jessica Gesund, World Bank blogs)

At the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts were quick to warn us about the disproportionate impact the crisis would have on socially excluded...

Lebanon – Independent third-party monitoring: A risk management tool for fiduciary assurance in Lebanon (Jocelyne Jabbour, Rima Koteiche, World Bank blogs)

Lebanon is currently facing a wave of crises, unprecedented in magnitude, with devastating socio-economic effects, all further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Independent third-party monitoring:...
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