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Swift and effective responses to disease outbreaks require a versatile toolkit. Pooled procurement can play a key role in enabling rapid access to safe, effective, and affordable medical countermeasures like vaccines and therapeutics. This procurement arrangement is associated with benefits such as lower prices, improved quality controls, quicker delivery, and less transaction costs—considerations with higher pay-offs as well as consequences during health emergencies like pandemics.

Several organizations are teaming up to push vaccinations onto children in an effort titled “The Big Catch-up."

Three years ago this week, the United States became a world leader in women’s empowerment. That’s when, in one of President Donald Trump’s first official acts in office, the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Act was signed into law.

New features enhance FourKites’ end-to-end supply chain visibility across a “single pane of glass”...

Beijing’s conversion into a major creditor has upended international finance—and not in a good way.

New features enhance FourKites’ end-to-end supply chain visibility across a “single pane of glass”

Isabelle Coleman: The position of Islamic and Western countries against Taliban is the same

Once again, the world is faced with a similar situation

Countries moving towards universal health coverage (UHC) face challenging decisions about what benefits they will include and cover—especially in the current fiscal and economic climate. Countries need easy-to-use and comprehensive tools to help them think through the path to expand (or contract) benefits for their country.

There is no doubt about China’s ambitious plans for Africa. The continent has become a key driver of China’s growth and success story for the past three to four decades, and this is not changing anytime soon as momentum keeps building toward creating more mutually beneficial and win-win synergies. Africa…