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...trade proposal was buried--and where Argentine President Néstor Kirchner, another leftist, heads a growing revolt against the U.S.-backed debt policies of the International Monetary Fund. For much of the 1990s, governments from Mexico City to Buenos Aires embraced the free-market reforms known as the Washington Consensus. But that is no longer true. In 1998 the richest 10% of Latin America's population earned 40% of the income; by 2003 it had jumped to 48%. A third of the population earns less than $2 a day. "We have been living through a schizophrenic period," says Carlos Toranzo...
...would have been done without him," says Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. Although politicians, academics and activists continue to differ over the best way to tackle poverty and disease in the developing world, Bono's contribution has been to forge, over the past decade, a surprisingly durable consensus on the need to do something. "The only thing that balances how preposterous it is to have to listen to an Irish rock star talk about these subjects," says Bono, "is the weight of the subjects themselves...
...that pales in comparison to what the foundation has done for the public imagination. For decades, the field of global health had languished, and there was a consensus that little could be done to change the fate of the poorest of the poor. Jim Kim, until recently director of WHO's department of HIV/AIDS, refers to that dark period as BGF (Before the Gates Foundation). Now, says Kim, "the Gates Foundation has made global health cool...
...with HIV, three people die of TB. A vast host of aid workers and agencies and national governments and international organizations have struggled for years to get ahead of the problem but often fell behind. The task was too big, too complicated. There was no one in charge, no consensus about what to do first and never enough money to do it. In Muslim parts of Ethiopia, aid workers can't talk to teenage girls about condoms to prevent AIDS; but in Tanzania they're encouraged to. How you cut an umbilical cord can determine whether a baby risks...
...consensus developed that however we may individually assess Dean Kirby, replacing him now, just as the college and graduate school are recovering momentum lost through the events of last year would provoke a new crisis,†the minutes read. “Such a change...would have a negative impact on the work of departments, and in some cases change now could be ‘catastrophic,’ in one chair’s view...