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"Primary Health Care in Low-Income Countries: Building on Recent Achievements," Journal of the American Medical Association, May 16, 2012. [Download as PDF]
"Global health within our grasp, if we don't give up," CNN Opinion, May 9, 2012. [Download as PDF]
"The effect of an integrated multisector model for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and improving child survival in rural sub-Saharan Africa: a non-randomised controlled assessment," with Paul M Pronyk, Maria Muniz, Ben Nemser, Marie-Andrée Somers, Lucy McClellan, Cheryl A Palm, Uyen Kim Huynh, Yanis Ben Amor, Belay Begashaw, John W McArthur, Amadou Niang, Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, Prabhjot Singh, and Awash Teklehaimanot. The Lancet, May 8, 2012. Download as [PDF]
"The new World Bank president should strive to make a difference in Africa," Daily Nation, March 6, 2012. [Download as PDF]
"Politicians just don't care enough to tackle this scourge," The Independent, November 30, 2011. [Download as PDF]
"Washington Leaves Millions to Die," Huffington Post, November 25, 2011. [Download as PDF]
"How Communities Can End AIDS." Huffington Post. June 9, 2011. [Download as PDF]
"Towards a global fund for the health MDGs?" with Paul Pronyk. The Lancet. 20 June 2009.
"3 billion poor people need world's help." CNN.com. 20 March 2009. [Download as PDF]
Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet, Penguin Press, 2008.
"Millennium Goals at the Midpoint." Scientific American. August 2008.
"Safety in Numbers." Time. 28 August 2008. [Download as PDF]
"Progress summary of the MDGs: update for ministers." The Commonwealth Ministers Reference Book. June 2008.
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"Primary Health for All." Scientific American. January 2008. [Download as PDF]
"The $10 Solution." TIME Magazine. 4 January 2007. [Download as PDF]
Poverty, AIDS and Hunger: Breaking the Poverty Trap in Malawi, with Anne C. Conroy, Malcolm J. Blackie, Alan Whiteside, Justin C. Malawezi, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
"Lower Fertility: A Wise Investment." Scientific American. September 2006.
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"75th Anniversary of AIDS Pandemic: 10 cents for every $100 Could Save Millions of Lives." ABC News Online. 2 June 2006.
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"Incorporating a Rapid-Impact Package for Neglected Tropical Diseases with Programs for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria," with Peter Hotez, David H. Molyneux, Alan Fenwick, Eric Ottesen and Sonia Ehrlich Sachs. PLoS Medicine, 3(5): e102. February 2006.
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, The Penguin Press: New York, 2005.
Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals, UN Millennium Project, (Director), Earthscan: New York, 2005.
“What it will take to meet the Millennium Development Goals,” with John McArthur and Guido Schmidt-Traub, Sustainable Development International, Fifteenth Edition, September 2005.
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"Why Aid Does Matter," BBC Online, 11 September 2005.
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"The Development Challenge", Foreign Affairs, March/April 2005.
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"The End of Poverty," Time, March 14, 2005.
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"The Millennium Project: A plan to meet the Millennium Development Goals," Lancet, Vol. 365, January 22, 2005.
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"A Practical Plan to End Poverty," Washington Post, January 17, 2005.
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"Health in the Developing World: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals," Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Volume 82, No. 12, December 2004.
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"Book Review: Solving Global Crises: Economists Alone are not Enough," Lancet, Vol. 364, December 11, 2004.
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"How to Halve World Poverty," The Economist -- The World in 2005, November 2004.
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"Building on the Commonwealth Action Plan," Commonwealth Finance MInisters Report 2004, September 28, 2004.
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"Don’t Know, Should Care", The New York Times, June 5, 2004.
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"A Simple Plan to Save the World," Esquire, May 2004.
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"Doing the sums on Africa," The Economist, May 20, 2004.
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"Third World Disease," Ob.Gyn. News May 1, 2004.
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"Priorities for meeting the Millennium Development Goals," with John McArthur, Global Future Magazine, First Quarter 2004.
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“New Challenges 1: The Millennium Development Goals - How Far We Have Come,” Development Cooperation Ireland Annual Report 2003.
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"A Letter from Africa: Confronting our Humanity in an AIDS-Ravaged World," in Pandemic: Facing AIDS, Umbrage Editions : New York, 2003.
"Mobilization of Domestic and Donor Resources for Health," World Bank Viewpoint, October 2003. [Download as PDF]
"World needs Japan in fight against diseases," with Joanne Carter, The Asahi Shimbun, August 26, 2003. [Download as PDF]
"A Miserly Response to a Global Emergency," Financial Times, July 17, 2003.
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"AIDS Funds Fall Short," with Paul Zeitz, Boston Globe, July 11, 2003.
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"America should not fight AIDS on its own," Financial Times, February 4, 2003.
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"Fighting Poverty, Fighting AIDS" Newsweek, January 6, 2003.
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"Weapons of Mass Salvation," The Economist, October 26, 2002.
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"Investing in Health for Economic Development: Time for US Action." Global HealthLink. March-April 2002. [Download as PDF]
"Improving the Health of the Global Poor." Science. March 15, 2002.
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"Testimony to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on African Affairs," February 14, 2002.
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"AIDS and Africa: Where is the U.S.?" with Sonia Ehrlich Sachs. Boston Globe. February 4, 2002.
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"The Effects of the AIDS Epidemic on Economic Welfare in sub-Saharan Africa," with Dean T. Jamison and Jia Wang, Commission on Macroeconomics and Health Working Paper WG1: 13, December 2001.
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"What's good for the poor is good for America," The Economist. July 12, 2001
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"A New Global Commitment to Disease Control in Africa," Nature Medicine, Vol. 7 No. 5, May 2001.
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"A Global Fund for the Fight Against AIDS". Washington Post. April 7, 2001. [Download as PDF]
"The Geography of Poverty and Wealth," with Andrew D. Mellinger and John L. Gallup. Scientific American. March 2001.
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"Fighting AIDS is a Bargain and a Moral One at That". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. February 14, 2001. [Download as PDF]
"AIDS, Drugs, and Africa". Financial Times. February 12, 2001. CIDNEWS [Download as PDF]
"The Best Possible Investment in Africa". New York Times. February 10, 2001. CIDNEWS. [Download as PDF]
"Defining and Refining International Donor Support for Combating the AIDS Pandemic" with Amir Attaran, The Lancet, Vol. 357, pp. 57-61, January 6, 2001.
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"A New Map of the World," The Economist, June 24 2000. (Reprinted in Imagining Tomorrow: Rethinking the Global Challenge. K. Sharma, ed. UN Millenium Assembly, August 2000).
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"Investing in the World Health Organization," with Barry Bloom, David Bloom, and Joel Cohen, in Science, Vol. 284, 7 May 1999.
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"Take a Fresh Look at Foreign Aid," International Herald Tribune, February 1997.
"When Foreign Aid Makes a Difference," The New York Times, February 3, 1997. [Download as PDF]
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