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Power struggles take place in a black box. as the lines are often attributed to winston churchill go, political intrigues are comparable to a bulldog fight over the rig and an outsider only hear his the grumbling and when he sees the bones fly out its obvious who won. it is prigozhins bones figuratively and perhaps soon we will see it literally. what is not a matter of speculation is the russian society. ive been stunned since i read it. a 15-year-old male has the same life expectancy as a 15-ye...

Amidst rapidly escalating climate crises, there is an urgent need to enable African countries to remodel existing financial infrastructure

It is difficult to identify another policy tool that has been either more celebrated or dismissed in recent decades as carbon pricing.  Long heralded by advocates as a silver bullet to confront climate change, it has increasingly been panned by critics as a political non-starter that distracts from serious climate mitigation.  This paper reviews the last half-decade of global climate policy and carbon pricing experience.  It examines significant political challenges to pricing adoption in nat...

This proposed Resource Allocation Framework may inform country-level allocation decisions by the Pandemic Fund for its first call for proposals supporting surveillance, laboratories, and human resources. This framework incorporates three measures of pandemic risk and one index of need for surveillance capacity for an overall allocation index.

New York-based economist Karan Bhasin says there is no evidence to argue that poverty did not decline since 2011

"...develop a model of the marriage market in which women remain in a child marriage equilibrium because delaying marriage is seen as a signal of low adherence to traditional gender norms, which is undesirable to grooms." This paper investigates marriage behaviour in rural Bangladesh, a setting in which female marriage before or shortly after 18 is

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The 20th century was one of great changes and advancement…especially from 1950 onwards. In the history of human progress, there was never a better time to be alive.

What lies in store for the future of policing?

The Supreme Court's consideration of the standards for satisfying the enablement provisions of 35 U.S.C. 112(a) has been occasioned for the first time in over a century by the Court's...