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Egypt – Building Back Better: Supporting Egypt’s efforts at inclusive recovery (Marina Wes, World Bank blogs)

In much of the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused economic recessions so severe that together they comprise the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression...

Education/Pandemic – How to best support and protect young children during COVID-19? Some lessons learned (Ella Humphry, Amanda Devercelli, World Bank blogs)

Young children and their families have been particularly vulnerable during the COVID-19 crisis. A survey of caregivers during COVID-19 in Pakistan found that emotional well-being of...

Economic Management/Debt – Improving economic management brings many benefits – among them, measurably lower sovereign financing costs (Girum Abate, Michael Brown, Alex Sienaert, Mark...

Low- and middle-income countries (LICs and MICs) are increasingly tapping the international capital markets for debt financing. It makes sense for them to do...

USA/China – Lessons from the Shanghai Middle Class (Paulson Institute)

On Tuesday, June 8, the Paulson Institute was pleased to host the latest Decoding China event featuring Damien Ma, Managing Director and co-founder of...

China – Fintech is Powering Green Growth in China (Green Finance Center, Paulson Institute)

How can digital financial technologies be leveraged to support China’s green development? A new report from the Paulson Institute and the Institute of Finance...

Belarus – Unpalatable Truths About Belarus’s Political Crisis (Grigory Ioffe, The Jamestown Foundation)

On June 14, Belarus’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) organized a 74-minute briefing to the press (YouTube, June 14). Two out of the three...

Russia/Roscosmos/USA – Roscosmos Suffers From Russia’s Confrontation With the US (Pavel Luzin, The Jamestown Foundation)

Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian state-owned space corporation Roscosmos, confirmed during parliamentary hearings earlier this month that Western sanctions have damaged Russia’s...

Russia/Arctic Council – Moscow Ready to Exploit Increasingly Independent-Minded Greenland against West (Paul Globe, The Jamestown Foundation)

The Russian government is already signaling that it plans an activist approach during its three-year term as chair of the Arctic Council (see EDM, April...

BIMSTEC/India – The Role of BIMSTEC in Revitalising India’s Northeast (Sohini Nayak, Sreeparna Banerjee, ORF)

For India, the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) has an important role to play in leveraging the geostrategic...

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