While Africa’s high infectious disease burden has drawn the most attention from the international public health community, the continent is also facing rising impacts from non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including diabetes. Similarly, crises of food insecurity in the region have obscured the risks of obesity accompanying Africa’s increasing economic growth and urbanization. This is changing, however, […]
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A comedian just became Ukraine’s next president
Source: https://www.vox.com/2019/4/21/18507822/volodymyr-zelensky-ukraine-president-comedian…
Ukraine’s next president may be a comedian who played the president on TV
Source: https://www.vox.com/2019/4/19/18411931/ukraine-election-zelensky-comedian-poroshenko…
As Fed Chief, Jerome Powell Navigates an Angry President and Turbulent Markets
How Jerome H. Powell handles the next few months will be a critical test of his leadership skills, as he tries to guide the bank through a highly uncertain moment in the global economy. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/13/business/jerome-powell-fed-trump.html?partner=rss&emc=rss…
Should We Worry About the Slowing Economy?
Across the world, economists have had to downgrade growth forecasts. Get used to it. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/opinion/economy-debt-inflation.html?partner=rss&emc=rss