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  • Secondary Cities: Neglected Drivers of Growing Economies [Infographic]

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    From the Wilson Center  //  December 28, 2015  //  By Jessica Wiggins
    Monterrey1

    While much of the attention in international development and academia has focused on mega and primary cities, rapidly growing secondary cities will play a significant role in global economic development in this, the urban millennium. [Video Below]

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  • In Fight to Stop the Spread of Female Genital Mutilation, Midwives Are Crucial

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  December 23, 2015  //  By Francesca Cameron
    FGM_Ethiopia

    Aissata M.B. Camara grew up in an educated, upper income household in Guinea, West Africa. One morning, she woke up to singing outside her window and knew they were coming. Many in her community thought that she was unclean and would grow up to be promiscuous if she wasn’t cut. She would be unmarriageable. While her family and community members held her down, she realized, “my body no longer belonged to me.” [Video Below]

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  • 8 Takeaways From the Paris Climate Change Conference

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    From the Wilson Center  //  December 18, 2015  //  By Meaghan Parker

    The nations of the world may have finally solved the thorniest problem in international relations and now we need to figure out practical solutions, said a panel of experts at the Wilson Center December 16.

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  • What Explains the United States’ Dismal Maternal Mortality Rates?

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  December 17, 2015  //  By Anna Bella Korbatov
    Monica Simpson

    On the world stage, the United States is an outlier for many reasons, some good, some bad. Few are more alarming, however, than maternal health. Despite spending two and half times more per person on health than the OECD average, the maternal mortality rate in the U.S. – the number of women who die during or as a result of childbirth and pregnancy – increased from 12 to 14 deaths per 100,000 live births from 1990 to 2015, putting the United States at 46th in the world. [Video Below]

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  • Tracking National Security in the Paris Outcome

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    Guest Contributor  //  December 16, 2015  //  By Carley Chavara
    Obama-COP21

    Security was inseparable from the climate talks in Paris, from the safety of conference participants to how climate change impacts the stability of nations.

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  • As Ebola Lingers in Liberia, What Have We Learned?

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    Guest Contributor  //  December 14, 2015  //  By Wade C. L. Williams
    Ebola treatment

    The deadly West African Ebola epidemic has largely faded from headlines, replaced by mounting concern over conflict in the Middle East, terrorism, and refugees streaming into Europe. But while Guinea and Sierra Leone were declared free of the disease in November, Monrovia saw three new cases two weeks later. At least 149 individuals who came into contact with the infected have been identified thus far, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

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  • Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Key to Youth Empowerment – But How Do You Put Girls at the Center?

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  December 10, 2015  //  By Anna Bella Korbatov
    Girls-School-Herat

    “If we are serious about results, [the Sustainable Development Goals] must be developed from the perspective of the young person, particularly the adolescent girl. It is about her challenges, her rights, and her future. Our collective success begins and ends with her,” said Benoit Kalasa, director of the technical division for the United Nation’s Population Fund at the Wilson Center on October 19. [Video Below]

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  • Can the “World’s Largest Urban Area” Clean Up Its Act? Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta

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    China Environment Forum  //  Choke Point  //  December 8, 2015  //  By Keith Schneider
    Streets of Shenzhen

    SHENZHEN, China – In 1980, the year Deng Xiaoping established Shenzhen as China’s first special economic zone, opening its mercantile sectors to market capitalism and free trade principles, an attractive, tree-shaded commercial district known as Dongmen was home to 30,000 residents near the center of a metropolitan region of 300,000.

    Thirty-five years later, Dongmen is a crowded commercial neighborhood of 300,000 residents at the edge of a metropolitan region of 18 million, China’s fourth largest.

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