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India – Has MGNREGS Helped the Rural Economy in 2021? (Centre for Policy Research)

Centre for Policy Research writes: A comparison of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) demand and supply of work between the first...

Malaysia – SDGs can guide our Covid-19 recovery (ISIS)

Alizan Mahadi writes: Last week, amid the record number of Covid-19 cases, Malaysia presented its progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to the United...

XCSSET MacOS malware targets Telegram, Google Chrome data and more (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini writes: XCSSET macOS malware continues to evolve, now it is able to steal login information from multiple apps, including Telegram and Google Chrome go...

Here is why we are boycotting the UN Food Systems Summit (Al Jazeera)

Elizabeth Mpofu, Edgardo Garcia write: In September this year, the United Nations will host a Global Food Systems Summit in New York. The organisers of...

The Taliban explained (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: The Taliban have won a string of battlefield victories in recent weeks as the United States-led foreign forces are about to complete...

The Gaza ceasefire is shaky and another war may be coming soon (Al Jazeera)

Adnan Abu Amer writes: As soon as the 11-day Israeli war on Gaza ended in May, preparation began in Israel and in the strip...

Iraqi PM al-Kadhimi: Iraq does not need US combat troops (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Iraq’s prime minister has said his country no longer requires American combat troops to fight ISIL (ISIS), but a formal timeframe...

UK – New directions in innovation policy (Policy Exchange)

by Geoffrey Owen Policy Exchange writes: This new paper by Policy Exchange’s Head of Industrial Strategy, Sir Geoffrey Owen, sets out how the U.K. can pursue...

Rethinking urban climate resilience: time for a reset? (IIED)

Aditya Bahadur and Thomas Tanner write: For the first time in the history of the world, more people live in towns and cities than in...

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