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COVID19/GREAT RECESSION – The role of managerial quality during the Great Recession (Gilbert Cette, Jimmy Lopez, Jacques Mairesse, Giuseppe Nicoletti, VOXEU)

The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the importance of swift reorganisation of tasks and logistics in cushioning economic shocks. For instance, the ability to rapidly...

USA – Tribes Mount Organized Responses to COVID-19, in Contrast to State and Federal Governments (Lisa Hardy, Gwendolyn Saul and Kerry F. Thompson, The...

As the months roll by, the pandemic continues to hit Indigenous nations hard. But this phenomenon is not new. Epidemics have been part of...

EUROPE/COVID19 – Europe needs to prepare better for coming out of new strict containment measures (OECD)

With the coronavirus (COVID-19) once again spreading rapidly, and the re-introduction of containment measures to flatten the curve of the epidemic, it is crucial...

ASIA PACIFIC/HEALTH/COVID19 – Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2020. Measuring Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage (OECD)

This sixth edition of Health at a Glance Asia/Pacific presents a set of key indicators of health status, the determinants of health, health care...

EUROPE – Memo to the European Commission on concrete initiatives for a more outward-looking, geopolitical Europe (Jean Pisani-Ferry, PIIE)

To: The President of the European Commission Background: In the Political Guidelines you presented to the European Parliament immediately after your designation in July 2019, you set...

BOLIVIA – Exile or Return (Al Jazeera)

What will the future hold for Bolivia and its former president, Evo Morales? In late 2019, mass protests triggered by a fiercely disputed election forced...

USA/CHINA – US bans cotton imports from China producer, citing ‘slave labour’ (Al Jazeera)

The administration of United States President Donald Trump raised the economic pressure on China’s western region of Xinjiang, banning cotton imports from a powerful...

USA/CHINA – Threat to China firms on US exchanges grows with bill’s progress (Al Jazeera)

The United States House of Representatives passed legislation to kick Chinese companies off US stock exchanges if they do not fully comply with the...

USA – CDC warns US of COVID-19 ‘rough times’ as hospitalisations surge (Al Jazeera)

The head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned the country faces “rough times” amid a deepening COVID-19 pandemic that...
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