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Global – How to protect healthcare workers – and improve pandemic preparedness (WEF)

Image: WHO Amira Ghouaibi, Mbali Motsoeneng 6 steps to protecting and supporting our healthcare workers | World Economic Forum (weforum.org)

Latin America and the Carribean – Lives or livelihoods: Latin America and the Caribbean’s pandemic dilemma (WEF)

Image: WHO, Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard. Containment strategies have helped to flatten the curve. Carlos Felipe Jaramillo, Sergio Olivieri, Carolina Mejia-Mantilla What are the effects of lockdown on...

Africa – What shifting foreign investment patterns mean for Africa’s recovery (WEF)

Image: Authors’ calculations using UNCTAD FDI and EORA Statistics. Total share of global FDI inflows. Christine Zhenwei Qiang, Peter Kusek, Victor Steenbergen, Brody Viney What shifting foreign...

Global – Building back broader: 6 steps to a global jobs recovery plan (WEF)

Image: World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report 2020 Saadia Zahidi Building back broader: 6 steps to a global jobs recovery plan | World Economic Forum...

Global – Building Back Broader: Policy Pathways for an Economic Transformation (WEF)

The highly asymmetric impact of the pandemic has reinforced historical inequalities within and between countries and is now giving rise to a highly divergent...

USA/Israel/Palestine – For Washington and the Palestinians, old policy is no substitute for sound policy (Brookings)

Omar H. Rahman For Washington and the Palestinians, old policy is no substitute for sound policy (brookings.edu)

USA/Apple – The Epic-Apple app case reveals monopoly power and the need for new regulatory oversight (Brookings)

Mark MacCarthy The Epic-Apple app case reveals monopoly power and the need for new regulatory oversight (brookings.edu)

Climate education – Will 2021 be the year governments commit to quality climate education? A growing call for action ahead of the G-20 (Brookings)

Kathleen Rogers and Rebecca Winthrop Will 2021 be the year governments commit to quality climate education? A growing call for action ahead of the G-20 (brookings.edu)

Extreme Poverty/Pandemic – Extreme poverty in the time of COVID-19 (Brookings)

Homi Kharas and Meagan Dooley Extreme poverty in the time of COVID-19 (brookings.edu)  

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