A guide to 9 global buzzwords for 2023, from 'polycrisis' to 'zero-dose children'

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We’re having a polycrisis. The pandemic has resulted in too many zero-dose children. Charities are not always succeeding in tarmac-to-arm.

These are a few of the global buzzwords you’re probably going to be hearing as 2023 kicks off. Sometimes buzzwords are easy to understand. It’s not that hard to figure out that a polycrisis is worse than a monocrisis.

But sometimes buzzwords are a bit perplexing — for instance, whose arm?