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Nobel Prize goes to 3 economists who study the wealth and poverty of nations

7:27am October 14, 2024

by Michel Martin

The award is shared by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of MIT and James Robinson of the University of Chicago for their research on the institutional roots of national wealth and poverty. They will split the prize money of 11 million Swedish krona or about $1.058 million.

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A patient talks with a nurse at a traveling contraception clinic in Madagascar run by MSI Reproductive Choices, an organization that provides contraception and safe abortion services in 37 countries. The group condemned the overturn of Roe v. Wade and war

Global reproductive and women's rights groups react to overturn of Roe v. Wade

4:32pm June 24, 2022

by Malaka Gharib

Some nonprofit groups have welcomed the U.S. Supreme Court decision. But many global reproductive and women's rights groups condemned the ruling.

Opinion: 5 steps we must take to vaccinate the world's vulnerable—and end the pandemic

7:05pm January 19, 2022

Three doctors present their proposal to get vaccines to everyone in the world. "We already have the resources, knowledge and systems," they write. Global leaders just have to make it happen.

How $6 billion from Elon Musk could feed millions on the brink of famine

8:11pm November 11, 2021

by Joanne Lu

Elon Musk reportedly made $36 billion in a single day. What if he gave a sixth of that to the World Food Programme? We ask researchers how much of a change $6 billion could bring.

A medical worker prepares a shot of Russia's Sputnik Lite coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination center last week in Moscow's GUM department store in Red Square with the St. Basil Cathedral in the background. The global death toll from COVID-19 has topped 5

The COVID-19 pandemic has now killed 5 million people around the world

9:10am November 01, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

The U.S. leads the world in the number of confirmed deaths from the virus — 745,800 people — followed by Brazil and India, according to Johns Hopkins University's coronavirus tracker.

COVID-19 vaccines from COVAX, the international vaccine-sharing program, arrive in Khartoum, Sudan, on Aug. 5. In a letter to President Biden, health experts are asking him to take action to manufacture and distribute vaccines to the entire world.

They're Asking Biden To Vaccinate The World. It's Not Fair. But It's Not Impossible

12:22pm August 20, 2021

by Joanne Lu

An open letter from 175 experts to President Biden made the ask. "We're not trying to be unreasonable," explains Dr. Paul Farmer, one of the signers. "We're trying to be optimistic and audacious."

Dr. Eugene Richardson in a helicopter during the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, where he worked as a clinical lead for Partner in Health's response to the outbreak. He is the author of the new book Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public

A Doc Was Mad That People Die From Preventable Diseases. So He Wrote A Book About It

2:02pm February 04, 2021

by Joanne Lu

Harvard professor Dr. Eugene Richardson explores colonialism's impact on global health in Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health.

President Trump and China's President Xi Jinping, shown in 2019, have faced criticism for their handling of the coronavirus. Both are now pushing hard for a vaccine. The United States has already agreed to pay a drug company more than $1 billion to produc

In The Battle Against COVID-19, A Risk Of 'Vaccine Nationalism'

10:57am May 27, 2020

by Greg Myre

The race to defeat the coronavirus is generating competition among nations and multinational companies. The main competition appears to be between the United States and China.

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Employees assemble motors at a Mercedes-Benz factory in Stuttgart, Germany, on Wednesday. The German government pays much of laid-off workers' salaries for up to 12 months during economic crises.

Europe's Economy Was Hit Hard Too, But Jobs Didn't Disappear Like In The U.S.

10:41am April 23, 2020

by Jim Zarroli

Many governments, especially in European countries, are handling unemployment differently, paying companies to keep their workers on the payroll until the pandemic is over.