by editor | May 1, 2019 | Top Page Links
by Vanora Bennett, TES Contributor Climate change attracts two kinds of opinion, it would seem: reasonable and other. In the first category, Gillian Tett argues in the Financial Times that central banks are slowly recognizing that global warming is a financial...
by editor | May 1, 2019 | Top Page Links
By Philip Stevens, Executive Director, Geneva Network Republished with permission of the Geneva Network. Original available here. The patent-based system of drug development comes under further pressure from key countries aiming to increase access to medicines...
by editor | May 1, 2019 | Top Page Links
Knowledge Economy Must Be At The Heart Of WTO’s Reform Agenda By Philip Stevens, Executive Director, the Geneva Network Republished with permission of the Geneva Network. Original available here. Trade tensions between the US and China continue to...
by editor | May 1, 2019 | Top Page Links
By Anthony Huston, President & CEO, Graphite One For most people, you say graphite, and they think of No. 2 pencils. But the reality is, you say graphite to a materials scientist, and they think of laptops and LEDs, smartphone and solar cells, Electric...
by editor | Apr 30, 2019 | Top Page Links
By Adrian Fielding, TES Contributor In a job interview in 2015 with a development finance institution (DFI) that will remain unnamed, my response to the question ‘what do you think we do here?’ went something like this: development finance institutions’ raison...
by editor | Apr 26, 2019 | Top Page Links
By Roger Bate When former US President George W. Bush announced the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) in 2005, nearly a million people were dying from malaria each year—most of them young children in sub-Saharan Africa. Today is World Malaria Day, and it’s a...