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Civic Tech Organizations – How not to create a civic tech organization and what to do instead (Koketso Moeti, WEF)

Civic tech organizations have an important role to play in the COVID-19 recovery. A new guide offers advice for creating organizations to create...

Climate Change/Sustainable Development – The industries most at risk from extreme weather – and how to protect them (John Alarcon, Yingzhen Chuang, WEF)

Adapting economies to climate-related impacts has become a major priority. Parametric insurance – which pays out depending on the severity of an event...

Biodiversity/Future Pandemics – G20 can prevent future pandemics by stopping destruction of nature (Luciana Borio, Neil Vora, WEF)

The rise in the number of pandemics coincides with tropical deforestation. This habitat destruction causes 'spillover' – when viruses jump from wildlife to...

Latin America – COVID-19 cost Latin America and the Caribbean 1.5 million jobs. Here’s how to recover them (Carlos Felipe Jaramillo, Joana Silva, World...

Low-skilled workers in Latin America and the Caribbean have been most affected by the pandemic, and it could impact for up to a...

Sub Saharan Africa – IMF: 7 steps to speed up the COVID-19 vaccine effort in sub-Saharan Africa (Kristalina Georgieva, Abebe Aemro Selassie, IMF blog)

Rapidly rising infections of COVID-19 are placing sub-Saharan Africa in the midst of a third wave. The growth of cases in the region...

Global Supply Chains – How to solve COVID’s crew change crisis and protect global supply chains (Jeremy Nixon, WEF)

Over 1 million seafarers work in tough conditions to support 80% of global trade. COVID-19 pandemic has stranded vast numbers of these key...

Digital Services – Designing digital services for equitable access (Sean McDonald, Brookings)

In 1995, the U.S. National Telecommunications Infrastructure Administration was the first government body to empirically document the existence of the “digital divide”—the gap between...

USA – The Derek Chauvin sentencing decision: Is it fair? (Richard Lempert, Brookings)

Derek Chauvin has now been sentenced for the murder of George Floyd. He has received a sentence of 270 months (22.5 years). How do...

Remittances – One more thing that economists failed at predicting during COVID-19 (Dany Bahar, Brookings)

Remittances—the flow of capital from immigrants to their families and friends back home—are a crucial source of income for many countries, representing over 20 percent...

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