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Moving Beyond Gender as Usual

Gender inequality drives the HIV epidemic, increasing the burden on women and girls and undermining the global response to the disease. A new HIV/AIDS Monitor report finds that despite well-meaning language and admirable broad goals, three of the biggest HIV/AIDS funders have yet to translate their concern for women and girls into systematic, effective programming. The report shows how to make that happen.

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The Atlantic Sees Guest Workers as One Way to Fix the World

If you could do one thing to make the world a better place, where would you start? The Atlantic included “welcoming guest workers” among its 15 ways to fix the world, citing a provocative comparison by non-resident fellow Lant Pritchett: guest workers vs. microcredit. CGD resident fellow Michael Clemens shows us the math, then quotes endorsements for guest worker programs from the three people who have headed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

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One Goal: Education and . . . Football for All?

As anticipation grows for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, private firms are not alone in thinking of creative ways to capitalize on all the attention. CGD’s Ayah Mahgoub shares a proposal to link the Education for All campaign to the World Cup: fans and others pledge to donate a certain amount of money for global education for each point a player or team scores. Too bad it’s not basketball.

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