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Global Health – Bridging Health’s Racial Divide (Project-Syndicate)

JEANNE MOUTOUSSAMY-ASHE, WAYNE C. KOFF write for Project-Syndicate: The world is poised to make transformative advances in disease prevention and control over the coming decades....

Malaysia – Fiscal distress exacerbates Malaysia’s growing COVID-19 crisis (East Asia Forum)

Shankaran Nambiar writes: Malaysia continues to grapple with its growing second wave of COVID-19. The country of 32 million people has now exceeded 995,000...

India – India’s ‘arbitrary and irrational’ vaccine policy spells trouble (East Asia Forum)

R Ramakumar writes: In May 2021, the Supreme Court of India remarked that the country’s policy of charging those aged between 18–45 for COVID-19...

TechInnovation/Digital Transformation – What constrained firm investments in digital technologies during the pandemic? (Brookings)

Leonardo Iacovone, Natasha Kapil, Lukasz Marek Marc, Giovanna Marcolongo, Ilias Skamnelos, and Gallina A. Vincelette write: While firms during COVID-19 accelerated the adoption of digital technologies, this adoption can...

Morocco – Israel, Africa, and Libya: Morocco’s foreign policy trump cards (Brookings)

Yasmina Abouzzohour writes: Moroccan foreign policy has garnered significant attention in recent months amidst heightened tensions with the European Union, talks of further rapprochement with Israel,...

Nigeria – Education in emergency in Nigeria: Creating gender equitable policies so all girls have an uninterrupted right to learn (Brookings)

Edem Dorothy Ossai writes: Even under what some may describe as normal conditions, girls in Nigeria face a distinctive set of barriers to formal...

South Africa – The impact of COVID-19 on industries without smokestacks in South Africa (Brookings)

Zaakhir Asmal and Christopher Rooney write: The COVID-19 pandemic has hit several sectors of economies, including those in Africa particularly hard. The affected sectors include industries...

Senegal – The impact of COVID-19 on industries without smokestacks in Senegal (Brookings)

Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Fatou Gueye, Massaer Mbaye, and Abdou Khadir Dia write: In Senegal, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant health and economic damage. More specifically, the...

USA – Exploring the often fraught relationship between public spaces and social divides (Brookings)

Hanna Love and Cailean Kok writes: When many Americans’ lives shrunk to their homes and neighborhood boundaries during the COVID-19 pandemic, it became strikingly clear that...

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