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Pandemic may encourage pharma policy rethink in Brazil

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BRAZIL

Brazil, one of the hardest-hit countries, has a long history of policy and practice aimed at matching universal healthcare with sustainable local supply. Successful technological…

Nigeria’s Lagos will struggle to curb COVID-19 spread

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NIGERIA

Lagos' eased lockdown.

Artificial intelligence will be a key test for the EU

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EU

This comes after member states paved the way for a common EU approach to AI at the EU’s Digital Day on April 9.

Boosting Africa’s health security will be challenging

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AFRICA

Although cases and mortality per capita in Africa have been low compared to Europe and the Americas, the pandemic has exposed underlying vulnerabilities in health systems…

African impact investment will need more local content

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AFRICA

Impact investment in Africa.

Blows to global crime groups will drive innovation

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INTERNATIONAL

The news follows the high-profile arrest in May of Rocco Morabito, the fugitive suspected leader of Italy's 'Ndrangheta mafia, in a US-Brazilian operation. Pandemic lockdowns have…

Targets in Iran’s development plan are unrealistic

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IRAN

Iran's development plans are macro-level guidelines which are then translated into micro-level policies and programmes. The 2022-26 plan has seven pillars: economic;…

COVID-19 and protests will shake up US cities

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UNITED STATES

These factors are stoking the urban civil unrest that has flared across the country in the last fortnight. What had seemed a practical matter of managing COVID-19 and…

Survival of Italy’s government rests on Draghi choice

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ITALY

Plans to invest in key areas such as innovation, digitisation and climate change are already under way, as are plans to reform the pension system.

COVID-19 will shape the future of UK healthcare

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UNITED KINGDOM

UK healthcare policy.