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For many years, British politician Boris Johnson decried the “nanny state”. In a 2004 article titled Face it: it’s all your own fat fault, he argued that obesity was a …

The Covid-19 pandemic, coupled with calls for greater workplace equity, has resulted in a moment of reckoning for the American labor market. While overall unemployment rates hover around 10%, just …

Immense opportunity and exceptional challenge. In a nutshell, this is what the women’s movement is faced with now. The opportunity? As we meet this unimagined moment of a Covid-19 crisis paired …

I was born my parents’ only child and a girl—not the preferred gender in those days in India. My father’s response? He treated me like a boy. He pushed me …

When Durreen Shahnaz first floated the idea of creating a new financing vehicle explicitly to help underserved women entrepreneurs in Asia, bankers and financiers advised her against including the word …

It is the week before Christmas, and Elizabeth Muia is getting ready to receive visitors at her home in Kyumu village in Machakos County, located in Kenya’s Eastern Region. Two …

Six months ago, traveling to another country required little more than a ticket and a valid passport. Then the Covid-19 pandemic turned international travel, and most parts of life, upside …

The Covid-19 pandemic did not cause the inequities in the U.S. financial system, but it has highlighted and further exacerbated the stark inequities of the U.S. economy. Institutional racism has …

If there was ever a mountain to climb, Myanmar’s energy transition represents the Hkakabo Razi of all challenges. With just 50% of the country able to access reliable power, mostly in urban …

The launch of the Food System Vision Prize in October 2019 was a call for visionaries to imagine “regenerative and nourishing” food systems. The Prize subsequently spurred the creation of …