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Global Call to Action

More than 165 leaders from over 70 countries have sent an urgent letter to the governments of the G20 nations. It is an appeal for internationally coordinated action to address the global health and economic crisis from COVID-19.  ...

Idled boats on the shore of Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on March 31. Photo: Ahmed Salahuddin/NurPhoto via Getty Images.

Responding to COVID-19 in the Developing World

The mass social distancing strategy being used to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in the United States and Europe doesn’t easily translate to a developing country like Bangladesh, which lacks the capacity to impose restrictions or provide a social safety net for the unemployed. We talked with...

Robert Shiller

Robert Shiller: Now the world faces two pandemics – one medical, one financial

Robert J. Shiller, a 2013 Nobel laureate in economics and professor of economics at Yale University, wrote the following article that appeared in The Guardian on...

I Gusti Putu Sudarta, Shadow Master

Watch "Sutasoma," a Balinese shadow play by Gusti Sudarta

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A supplemental reading packet, with translation and transcription of...

Whitney MacMillan

Whitney MacMillan, longtime friend of Yale, and namesake of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, dies at the age of 90

Whitney MacMillan, former chairman and CEO of Cargill, died on March 11 at the age of 90. In April 2006 the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale was named for he and his wife in recognition of a transformative gift they made to support international...

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