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Winter 2021 Issue
Rethinking Multilateralism for a Pandemic Era

Rethinking Multilateralism
for a Pandemic Era

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, and Larry Summers

Incremental change within existing mechanisms has failed; we need a fundamental reset
Back to Basics

What Are Global Public Goods?

Moya Chin

Global institutions must coordinate to preserve the goods that benefit us all

PEOPLE IN ECONOMICS

Data Driven

Chris Wellisz profiles MIT’s Amy Finkelstein, who tests economic models with large data sets

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THE HEALTH ISSUE

Pandemic Economics

Ruchir Agarwal and Gita Gopinath

A broad-based economic recovery requires an end to the pandemic.

Measuring the Essence of the Good Life

Daniel Benjamin, Kristen Cooper, Ori Heifetz, and Miles Kimball

The search continues for a better gauge of prosperity than GDP alone.

Accelerating Vaccinations

Arthur Baker, Esha Chaudhuri, and Michael Kremer

Expanded production and more money for research will get shots into arms faster

Going the Last Mile

Eugene Bempong Nyantakyi and Jonathan Munemo

Improving sub-Saharan Africa’s logistics could be the key to successful vaccine delivery

Reflections on a Healthy Society

Michelle Bachelet, Jeffrey Sachs, K.K. Shailaja, Christian Happi, Kate Soper, and María del Rocío Sáenz

Six thinkers explore lessons learned from the pandemic to cultivate a more resilient world

A Life Well Lived

Analisa R. Bala, Adam Behsudi, and Anna Jaquiery

Three countries provide lessons for improving health and promoting happiness

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Listening to Social Silence

Gillian Tett

Anthropology is vital for building back better

Toward Better Pandemic Preparedness

Jay Patel and Devi Sridhar

Infectious disease outbreaks are inevitable—but we can mitigate their effects by investing in prevention

Pandemic Lessons

Ruchir Agarwal interviews the Global Fund's Peter Sands on why economists should pay more attention to global health

A New Public Health Order for Africa

John Nkengasong

Regional solutions are what we need to get us through the next pandemic

Dementia Storm on the Horizon

Nathaniel Counts, Arindam Nandi, Benjamin Seligman, and Daniel Tortorice

The rising incidence of dementia around the world calls for global collaboration and decisive financing

The African Century

Abebe Aemro Selassie

The right actions today will ensure that sub-Saharan Africa thrives in a post-COVID world

Quantum Computing's Possibilities and Perils

José Deodoro, Michael Gorbanyov, Majid Malaika, and Tahsin Saadi Sedik

Quantum computers could crack the cryptography that underpins financial stability

Editor's Letter

The Economics of Health
and Well-Being

Gita Bhatt

Just as good health—mental and physical—is fundamental to individual well-being, public health is fundamental to stable, cohesive societies. That is the lesson we must take from the COVID-19 pandemic

Point of View

Financing Health Systems
for the Future

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

We must view universal health coverage as a public policy goal and an investment

Picture This

The Journey of the COVID-19 Vaccine

Andrew Stanley

The development of COVID-19 vaccines has been miraculous, but the path to inoculating the world presents many obstacles

Book Reviews

The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution is Transforming Currencies and Finance Eswar S. Prasad

Tumultuous Times: Central Banking in an Era of Crisis Masaaki Shirakawa

Where Credit Is Due: How Africa’s Debt Can Be a Benefit, Not a Burden Gregory Smith

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