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Making money from obesity
Today’s NY Times has an interesting article about drugs companies racing to make drugs to fight…
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Every 3 seconds
Make Poverty History has a short video here about the fact that a child dies unnecessarily…
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Aid works: abolition of Guinea Worm
Guinea worm is set to be the next disease eradicated from the world and the first…
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Abortion and stem cell research
Read Matthew Yglesias on the contradiction between opposing abortion but believing in stem cell research. the…
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My new blog on vaccines
I’ve been setting up the first blog for my employer, the Center for Global Development. This…
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Pay Day for Big Sugar
The allocation of EU Common Agricultural Policy subsidies has been released, under the Freedom of Information…
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Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
Living in America, I am fortunately spared all but the worst excesses of the British election,…
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Aid works: rates of return of 20-30%
Donor agencies have tried to measure the rates of return on investment in individual, aid-financed projects,…
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What do city analysts do?
We’ve all been amused by former Enron Chief Executive Ken Lay trying to present himself as…
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