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Want to save millions of lives? Cut salt, tobacco and alcohol intake

National Post

Addressing chronic disease risks in poor countries would make a huge difference to our world.

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Tackle chronic diseases using stricter regulation

Daily Nation

NCDs are claiming more lives everywhere while receiving a fraction of health funding.

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The Unabated Global Malnutrition

Addis Fortune

We measure chronic malnutrition in stunting; children are so underfed that they are much shorter than their peers of the same age. Stunting decreases children's survival chances, with 2.7 million globally dying year...

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Handel är viktigare än bistånd (Trade is more important than aid)

Svenska Dagbladet

Opposition to trade also means dismissing the fantastic opportunities that trade brings to the poorer half of the world.

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Meeting with NPC of Botswana in Gaborone

Saleema and Ralph and Mr Christopher Molomo

Meeting was held with about a 15 member team of the NPC which was chaired by the Commissioner General, Batho Christopher Molomo. Ralph Nordjo and Saleema Razvi travelled to Gaborone to discuss the way forward follow...

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Reduce world poverty by raising world trade

China Daily

If we grow global trade by a mere five per cent, the benefits to mankind will be $11 trillion. In this eighth instalment of The Do-able Dozen: Development projects for 2030 and beyond, Bjorn Lomborg explains how fre...

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More trade will make everyone better off

Daily Graphic

Over the past century, trade had been increasing as a percentage of the entire global economy, but this peaked around the Global Financial Crisis, and is now declining. This is true for Ghana as well, where the shar...

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Backing free trade obsolete

Daily Nation

Supporting free trade is out of fashion. In rich countries, it has been blamed for job losses and all but abandoned by policymakers.

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Stakeholder discussion in Mbabane on the cost-benefit assessment for Eswatini

Ralph Saleema and Dr Sacolo

Following the work on rapidly assessing Eswatini's National Development Strategy in collaboration with Dr. Thabo Sacolo and his team at the Eswatini Economic Policy Analysis and Research Centre (ESEPARC), Saleema Ra...

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Meeting with NPC of Namibia in Windhoek

Ralph and NPC Namibia

The National Planning Commission of Namibia invited Ralph Nordjo to discuss the possibility to collaborate on cost-benefit analyses within the Halftime project framework. The meeting with Mr. Sylvester Mbangu (Deput...

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