Tag: opinions
A Pledge for Africa
In 34 of Sub-Saharan Africa’s 45 countries, annual per capita health spending is below…
Averting a COVID-19 Security Crisis in Africa
Although COVID-19 does not affect all equally, it does confirm the axiom that, in…
Will COVID-19 Remake the World?
No one should expect the pandemic to alter – much less reverse – tendencies…
Protectionism Is No Cure for Pandemics
Africa has learned the hard way that international cooperation is key to saving lives…
Will Global Governance Prove Itself?
Although institutions of international and regional integration have chalked up major successes in recent…
The Chinese Health Organization?
If the World Health Organization is to spearhead international health policy and respond to…
Viral Authoritarianism
In the rush to mitigate a public-health emergency like the COVID-19 pandemic, illiberal governments…
The Grim Truth About the “Swedish Model”
As the coronavirus pandemic has swept the planet, Sweden has stood out among Western…
How Africa Can Fight the Pandemic
The response to Africa’s COVID-19 plight must be swift and at scale rather than…
KWIBUKA26: A Scholar’s Perspective
Rwanda and the International Community is remembering victims of the 1994 genocide against the…
Vietnam’s Low-Cost COVID-19 Strategy
Tightened border controls, agile health departments, tech platforms, and a hand-washing song that went…
Africa Needs Debt Relief to Fight COVID-19
Combating COVID-19 is more challenging in Africa than in other parts of the world.…
Ebola Lessons for Fighting COVID-19
The Democratic Republic of Congo will soon pass a milestone marking its success in…
Is This China’s Global Leadership Moment?
A pandemic is no time to tout the superiority of any country’s governance system…
Can Liberal Democracy Survive COVID-19?
Even if Western leaders manage to limit the COVID-19 outbreak’s immediate fallout, it will…
Economic Policies to Combat COVID-19 in Africa
The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to impose heavy human, financial, economic, and social costs…
A Gender Lens for COVID-19
Gender is often an ignored factor during health emergencies, even though women comprise 70%…
How Africa’s Economies Can Hedge Against COVID-19
The African Continental Free Trade Area will help dismantle tariff and non-tariff barriers amid…
When COVID-19 Comes to Africa
There is no telling how long it will take to bring the COVID-19 coronavirus…
The Three Essential Questions about COVID-19
Public-health specialists in the United States and elsewhere must focus squarely on gathering more…
Averting Economic Disaster Is the Easy Part
Based on China’s experience with COVID-19, the fiscal cost of comprehensive compensation for lost…
The World Is at War
Western countries are finally waking up to the sheer scale of the COVID-19 crisis,…
The Pandemic Stress Test
The COVID-19 crisis has exposed the underlying weaknesses in national economies, health systems, and…
Remembering the Forgotten Gandhi
The Dandi March, which started 90 years ago, inaugurated Mahatma Gandhi’s most successful attempt…
Which way for potentially less harmful alternatives to cigarettes?
Debate is raging globally around smoke-free alternatives, such as e-cigarettes, which are being presented…
Africa’s Litigated Democracy
The fact that African opposition parties increasingly turn to the courts when they lose…
The Virus of Fear
The panic that often occurs during a health crisis or in the aftermath of…
That 1970s Feeling
Policymakers and too many economic commentators fail to grasp how the next global recession…
The Two Faces of Pharaoh
Hosni Mubarak was an autocratic ruler, under whom radical opposition – especially Islamic –…
Understanding Sanders
US Senator Bernie Sanders’s repeated attacks on inequality show a commitment to democracy and…
