The increasingly complex and rapidly changing global health and socio-economic landscape requires fundamentally new ways of thinking, acting and collaborating to solve growing systems challenges. Cross-sectoral collaborations between governments, businesses, international organizations, private investors, academia and non-profits are essential for lasting success in achieving the Sustainable De...

This paper investigates whether state-to-state political ties with the United States affect pricing of global syndicated loans. We find that a one-standard-deviation improvement in state between U.S. and government borrower’s home country is associated 14.7 basis points lower loan spread, shaving off about 11.8 million USD interest payments over duration average for borrowers. Results also show...

India and Africa have been sharing a multidimensional relationship of cooperation friendship since the ancient civilizations. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new possibilities opportunities for to leverage its soft power diplomacy towards Africa. paper’s main focus is analyze how made part foreign policy examine India’s with African continent through health diplomacy. A literature search was ...

Jeremy Shiffman’s editorial appropriately calls on making all forms of power more apparent and accountable, notably productive power derived from expertise and claims to moral authority. This commentary argues that relationships based on productive power can be especially difficult to reveal in global health policy because of embedded notions about the nature of power and politics. Yet, it is e...

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Global public opinion has emerged as an important factor affecting international relations. But have U.S. public diplomacy efforts during the post-9/11 period successfully improved foreign publics’ images of the U.S. and its foreign policy? We examine this question by estimating the effects of U.S. high-level visits to foreign countries on public opinion in those countries. Our compositional da...

in his recent commentary, gorik ooms argues that “denying that researchers, like all humans, have personal opinions … drives researchers’ personal opinion underground, turning global health science into unconscious dogmatism or stealth advocacy, avoiding the crucial debate about the politics and underlying normative premises of global health.” these ‘unconscious’ dimensions of global health are...