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February 17, 2016
Health
From Ebola to Zika: Why the World Needs WHO Reform
The following is a guest post by Daniel Chardell, research associate in the International Institutions and Global Governance program at the Council on Foreign Relations. As the Zika virus spreads …
September 28, 2007
Iraq
The Iraq Data Debate: Civilian Casualties from 2006 to 2007
Gen. David Petraeus’ assertions about falling casualties in Iraq are supported by a range of objective sources. But his testimony to Congress does not establish whether the decline is attributable to…
May 3, 2013
United States
Syrian Lethal Aid, Drones Over Yemen, and Isolationism
Nussaibah Younis, “Why Maliki Must Go,” New York Times, May 2, 2013. Given the two-year-old Syrian civil war escalating next door, a sectarian crisis and political collapse in Iraq would be a disast…
November 19, 2008
China
Financial Crisis May Worsen Poverty in China, India
The global financial crisis threatens to hamper poverty alleviation efforts in India and China, responsible for lifting the largest numbers of the world’s poor out of extreme poverty. Political or s…
May 21, 2018
Health Policy and Initiatives
A Conversation About the 71st World Health Assembly and the World Health Organization
Nearly one year has elapsed since the seventieth World Health Assembly elected Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as the new director-general of the World Health Organization. This meeting of CFR's Globa…
