Tag: USA
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Who’s Afraid of Trump’s Tariffs?
C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh (posted on IDEAS blog, 1 April 2025) observe that the weaponization of tariffs by US President Donald Trump has generated fear and loathing across the world. These threats are not only purely performative; nor are they just transactional in nature. The logic of these tariff threats in most cases…
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Operation ‘save capitalism’ in America
By C.P. Chandrasekhar in Frontline 7 March 2025 Make no mistake: Trump and his team do not wish to destroy the US state; they aim to capture it and make it even more an instrument to serve the rich. If the first month of Donald Trump’s second term as US President is any indication, global…
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PEPFAR under review: what’s at stake for PEPFAR’s future
Jirair Ratevosian et al (22 Feb 2025) in Lancet 405(10479),603-5 The US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) faces a pivotal moment, confronting one of its most challenging periods since its launch in 2003. The new policy priorities of the administration of US President Donald Trump, along with reports of 21 abortion services performed under…
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“Stop looking north, look to the world”. Can we imagine Global Health without the USA at its centre
By Cristian Montenegro and Sebastian Fonseca in PLOS Global Public Health, 14 Feb 2025 “Colombia, stop looking north; look to the world.” These are some of the words used by Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, in response to U.S. president Donald Trump’s economic threats— themselves a reaction to Petro’s initial refusal to accept U.S. military planes carrying deported…
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The Trump Effect: pushing global health to the brink
In Part 1 of an n-depth analysis, Dr B Ekbal examines the potential global health impact of Donald Trump’s presidency, drawing parallels to his past healthcare policies Originally published in People’s Health Dispatch, 6 Feb 2025 President Donald Trump, in his second term, has made a series of decisions that have significantly undermined the global…
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Corporate Medicine 2.0 — Special Purpose AcquisitionCompanies in the United States
By Nishant Uppal and Zirui Song, published in NEJM, 10 April 2024 Acquisitions of U.S. health care entities by private equity firms have come under scrutiny. But the back end of corporate acquisitions — the exit strategy — has remained largely ignored, despite arguably being more important in the long run. Private equity firms typically…
