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Introduction Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are the healthcare system players most patients have never heard of. Yet, PBMs represent a multibillion-dollar industry that touches the...

The Working Paper series has been produced to stimulate debate on the economic transformation of the EBRD regions. Views presented are those of the authors and not necessarily of the EBRD.

The balance in Russian-Indian relations is shifting decidedly toward New Delhi. Russia’s break with the West and ever closer ties with China as a result of the war against Ukraine will make sustaining its partnership with India more challenging.

The amount of time full-time employees work from home in Germany has leveled off at an average of 1.4 days per week since the pandemic – compared to 1.3 days in neighboring France, 1.6 days in the US, and 1.1 days in Japan. This means that Covid-19 has had a severe and lasting effect on working conditions. That is the finding of a comparative study of 27 countries conducted by the ifo Institute. “Never before has any kind of event reshaped work so profoundly in such a short time,” says Mat...

The balance in Russian-Indian relations is shifting decidedly toward New Delhi. Russia’s break with the West and ever closer ties with China as a result of the war against Ukraine will make sustaining its partnership with India more challenging.

The financial reform proposals now pending in the Senate would actually make crises and bailouts more—rather than less—likely.

Geneva, Switzerland, Monday 6 September 2021. A week of intensive meetings of the Seventh Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), chaired by Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Switzerland and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva, Switzerland, Ambassador Lansana Gberie, as President, ended with all key initiatives

<p><span>Its a pleasure to be with you today to talk about a subject that I experience directly—womens labor force participation.</span><span> I come to this issue with a similar perspective to this Commission, being from a heavily rural state and a small farming and ranching community deep in the Flint Hills of Kansas. But I also have roots here in Arkansas, my husbands family is from Hardy, and my fathers mother was from Little Rock. Its really nice t...

In particular is the mar-a-lago search is being a trigger. another one, oddly enough, these two are conflated in the last week and a half on the right is the plans to increase funding for the irs. and youll see those two things spoken about as if theyre the same thing. as if this is all a part, a plan of the federal government to clamp down on people like us, trump first and then i guess all of his supporters. >> this anti-government extremism and that thread that theyre seeing there. joan, how ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An Iranian diplomat called upon the nuclear weapon states to implement their long overdue obligations on nuclear disarmament and stop the vertical, horizontal, quantitative and qualitative proliferation of nuclear weapons.