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Mack Mills
(Research associate at LSE Health. Interests include market access, sustainable financing and sustainable innovation in health care. Views are my own.)
OVER THE decades since its invention, the goggle box has been transformed almost beyond recognition. What was once a bulky cabinet sitting in the corner of the living room has grown like Topsy in height and width and shrunk like Ant-Man in depth.
IT WAS THE moment with which India's farmers' protest movement will be forever identified. All of a sudden, on the afternoon of January 26th, Republic Day, a singular image flashed across the country's television screens. Hundreds or possibly…
NONE OF THE universities to which Lin Meizi, a farmer's daughter, applied was in her province of Yunnan, one of China's poorest regions. Young people often flee to join millions of other rural migrants seeking work in booming coastal cities. Few…
FOR ALL its deadliness the covid-19 pandemic—which has claimed the lives of more than 2m people—exhibits some fascinating mathematical properties. Take, for example, the virus's “doubling rate”—how many days it…
AS NEW VARIANTS of SARS-CoV-2 take off, it seems increasingly likely that vaccination is the only way the pandemic will be brought under control. In theory, the high efficacy shown in clinical trials should be sufficient to stop the virus cold. Yet…
