Tag: COVID19

COVID19/POVERTY – 2.7 billion people did not get state aid during pandemic: Oxfam (Al Jazeera)

The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown measures to contain it have hit millions of people hard, with poverty set to increase sharply in almost...

DATA/COVID19 – Making data-informed Covid-19 testing plan (IDSS)

https://idss.mit.edu/news/making-data-informed-covid-19-testing-plans/

LATIN AMERICA/COVID19 – Moving Beyond COVID-19: Vaccines and Other Policy Considerations in Latin America (Pepe Zhang, Atlantic Council)

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/issue-brief/moving-beyond-covid-19-vaccines-and-other-policy-considerations-in-latin-america/

COVID19 – How countries are dealing with the delicate matter of who to vaccinate first (John Letzing, WEF)

A medic fills a syringe with an experimental COVID-19 vaccine before administering it to a health worker during trials in Ahmedabad, India, November 26,...

COVID19 – We can’t let the pandemic derail progress for disabled people (Susannah Rodgers, WEF)

Powering ahead: The author Susannah Rodgers competing at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. Image: Action Images COVID-19 has been devastating for disabled people who face...

COVID19 – ‘A game changer’ – Austria’s Sebastian Kurz and other leaders on COVID vaccines (Christopher Alessi, WEF)

Austria's Sebastian Kurz spoke at the Forum's Great Reset Dialogues on 2 December. Image: REUTERS/Lisi Niesner "Vaccination is the game changer. It’s difficult to plan the...

COVID19 – Disarming Vaccine Disinformation (CFR)

Panelists discuss COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and disinformation campaigns and tactics to disrupt and disarm them. Speakers Imran Ahmed Chief Executive Officer, Founder, Center for Countering Digital Hate Tara...

EUROPE – European financial integration during the COVID-19 crisis: Insights from a new indicator (Stefano Borgioli, Carl-Wolfram Horn, Urszula Kochanska, Philippe Molitor, Francesco Paolo...

COVID-19 represents an unprecedented shock in terms of the scale and speed of its effects. On 30 January, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19...

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...

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...

COVID19/DEBT RELIEF – In the time of pandemic, debt relief efforts need to go further (Patricia Scotland, Al Jazeera)

In the last few months, due to the devastating effect the coronavirus pandemic has had on the global economy, the fiscal clock has been...

COVID19 – Language and Lockdowns (Kaushik Basu, Project-Syndicate)

Reducing the policy discussion on COVID-19 lockdowns to a simple binary debate – yes or no – oversimplifies a complex problem. At least until a...

GLOBAL EYE – COVID-19 will increase humanitarian needs in 2021: UN (Al Jazeera)

The coronavirus pandemic is pushing the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance to new highs, according to the United Nations, dramatically increasing...