Human Development

Emmanuel Macron & Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Around the world, childhood is being reprogrammed by digital technologies that shape how young people learn, play, and connect. But children and young people are not experimental subjects, a captive market, or a commodity, which is why we must shape digital environments that protect and support their healthy development.

call for a balanced precautionary approach, including age restrictions and robust safety-by-design features.

Thompson Ayodele cautions that expanding access to advanced treatments must not come at the expense of incentives for innovation.

Ilan Goldfajn & Eduardo Levy Yeyati advocate well-sequenced reform agendas to create the conditions needed to attract private capital.

Manica Balasegaram, et al. tout product development partnerships as a way to deliver new vaccines, medicines, and diagnostics.

Tanu M. Goyal & Shekhar Aiyar use India’s experience to show that multilateral lenders should focus on knowledge and technology transfers.

Stephen Holmes sees a new proposed rule politicizing research grants as part and parcel of a broader war on the future.

M. Niaz Asadullah & Zia Sadique use Bangladesh’s experience to show how the underpinnings of public health can be quietly eroded.

Christina Sarah Hauser & Maleke Fourati tout awareness-raising sessions with medical professionals as an easy way to dispel misinformation and fear.