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Editorial Board, ANU The incentives for Asian governments are clear: vaccinate as many people as you can as fast as you can. Lives will be...

Jeremy Youde, University of Minnesota Duluth In less than a year since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic, there are already 10...

Alexander L Vuving, APCSS Events over the past year have brought major long-term trends in Vietnam’s domestic and foreign policy to the surface. The country...

Martin Weiser, Seoul On 25 August 2020, North Korea took another drastic step in its anti-COVID-19 measures by establishing restricted ‘buffer zones’ at its border...

ZAINAB USMAN If 2020 was the year of the coronavirus pandemic, then 2021 is shaping up to be the year of the vaccine. https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/02/24/vaccine-geopolitics-could-derail-africa-s-post-pandemic-recovery-pub-83928

JULIA ANDERSON, FRANCESCO PAPADIA AND NICOLAS VÉRON In 2020, European governments mitigated the economic impact of COVID-19 lockdowns and other pandemic-fighting programmes through a host of initiatives. https://www.bruegel.org/2021/02/covid-19-credit-support-programmes-in-europes-five-largest-economies/

SUMAN BERY, ALICIA GARCÍA-HERRERO AND PAULINE WEIL In April 2020, the G20, at the urging of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, launched the Debt Service Standstill...

 DIRK SCHOENMAKER Climate change is a hotly debated issue in the European Central Bank’s ongoing strategy review. https://www.bruegel.org/2021/02/a-brown-or-a-green-european-central-bank/

Chris Heitzig and Leo Holtz On Wednesday, the Central Bank of Sudan steeply devalued its currency to appeal to foreign donors and access debt relief. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2021/02/27/africa-in-the-news-sudan-covid-19-vaccine-and-political-updates/