In a recent, very important article published in Foreign Policy, my guest Laurie Garrett writes about how the World Bank was holding back funds to tackle the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

An issue not very well known until her article.

To look at this situation and more is Laurie Garrett. Laurie is a former fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Pulitzer Prize winning science writer and the author of a number of really good books.

The World Bank Has the Money to Fight Ebola but Won’t Use It

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