By Nancy Birdsall and Ngozi Okonjo-IwealaThe countries of Sub-Saharan Africa have reached a critical juncture.

By Anderson Stanciole and Federica MaurizioWith all the talk about the impending “Asian century”, one might imagine that the region had moved beyond what are often viewed as poor-country health challenges, like high rates of maternal mortality.The reality is very different.In 201

We can save so many lives around the world if we just slow down.Each year, more than 1.25 million people — many of them young people — die in automobile crashes. And a large proportion of these deaths are preventable: about one-third are due to vehicles travelling at excessi

With measles outbreaks currently spreading across Europe and the Midwestern United States, and meningitis infecting US college students, health experts are doing something they never thought they would have to do in early 2017: reminding people in developed countries that vaccine

 By Carmen Reinhart and Vincent Reinhart Every spring, international bureaucrats flock to Washington, DC, as reliably as swallows to Capistrano, for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, where they exchange information about their lo

By Stephen Matlin, Goverdhan Mehta, Henning Hopf and Alain Krief On April 22, scientists from around the world will mark Earth Day by participating in an unprecedented “March for Science”. The aim of the march will be to “celebrate and defend science at all levels

By Joseph E. Stiglitz and Martin GuzmanPuerto Rico’s deep and prolonged recession has led to a severe debt crisis.

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By Ian Goldin and Jonathan WoetzelMany of the immigration debates now raging around the world reflect the faulty assumption that admitting immigrants is an act of largesse — and a costly one, at that. But far from being an economic burden, immigrants represent a major econom