Slow work makes good work. There is no shortcut to the thing that lasts.

Memory is not the past. It is what the past leaves behind when it becomes the present.

The willow bends. The idea survives. The lesson accumulates.

We tend to think in straight lines. Cause, then effect. Before, then after. But the world runs on networks: the unexpected connections between things that seemed unrelated until suddenly they were not

History is full of thresholds that looked, at the time, like ordinary days.

We cannot stop time. But we can choose what we plant before it runs out.

Invisible things are not absent things. They are simply things we have stopped looking at. That, I think, is exactly why they are worth examining.

“Every moment is a fresh beginning." T.S.

“The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” — Shirley MacLaine

"Language is the road map of a culture.

Why do some societies manage to make people healthier and more equal while others fail? The open-access book “Getting Better: The Policy and Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities” (Bambra, Lynch &...

This article reconstructs the brief but intense involvement of the World Bank with the commodity problem in the 1960s. It argues that the rise of economic expertise at the Bank brought the institut...

‪AS Yazbeck, WD Savedoff, WC Hsiao, J Kutzin, A Soucat, A Tandon, A Wagstaff, W Chi-Man Yip‬, ‪Health Affairs, 2020‬ - ‪Cited by 74‬

This review summarises empirical studies on the progressivity and redistributive effects of healthcare financing mechanisms. The evidence varies signi…

International initiatives must complement, not duplicate, national health strategies