Tag: Pandemic

(Italy/Government/Pandemic) Government architecture and the sense of government unpreparedness during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy (VOXEU)

Massimiliano Ferraresi, Gianluca Gucciardi In the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak, central governments around the world played a central role in defining policy options...

(USA/Pandemic) Covid-19 and the Military: Maintaining Operations While Supporting Civil Society (CSIS)

Adam Saxton, Mark Cancian The response to the coronavirus pandemic presents the Biden administration with its first defining challenge. The Department of Defense (DoD) played...

(Pandemic/Free Speech) Covid-19 Triggers Wave of Free Speech Abuse (HRW)

At least 83 governments worldwide have used the Covid-19 pandemic to justify violating the exercise of free speech and peaceful assembly, Human Rights Watch...

(Philippines/Pandemic) COVID-19 Impact on Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises under the Lockdown: Evidence from a Rapid Survey in the Philippines (ADBI)

Shinozaki, Shigehiro Rao, Lakshman Nagraj https://www.adb.org/publications/covid-19-impact-msme-under-lockdown-evidence-rapid-survey-philippines

(USA) How Biden and Congress can use COVID-related corporate stimulus to boost climate resilience (Brookings)

Sanjay Patnaik, Siddhi Doshi, and Kelly Kennedy https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-biden-and-congress-can-use-covid-related-corporate-stimulus-to-boost-climate-resilience/

(Pandemic/Inequalities) Prioritizing Equity After COVID-19 (Chatham House)

Mishal Khan, Anna Durrance-Bagale, Hanna-Tina Fischer, Johanna Hanefeld https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/02/prioritizing-equity-after-covid-19

(Pandemic/Westphalian Resurgence) Coronavirus: The Spark For A Westphalian Resurgence? (1945)

Scott Harr https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/02/coronavirus-the-spark-for-a-westphalian-resurgence/

(USA) Explaining the economic impact of COVID-19: Core industries and the Hispanic workforce (Brookings)

Aaron Klein and Ember Smith https://www.brookings.edu/research/explaining-the-economic-impact-of-covid-19-core-industries-and-the-hispanic-workforce/

(Pandemic) Coronavirus Crisis Update: Dr. Alisha Kramer, the “New Normal” is “Not So Normal” (CSIS)

H. Andrew Schwartz, J. Stephen Morrison, Alisha Kramer https://www.csis.org/node/59719

(Pandemic/Inequality) Why coronavirus pandemic is helping narrow global inequality (Al Arabiya)

Omar Al-Ubaydli https://englishbeta.alarabiya.net/views/2021/01/31/Coronavirus-Why-coronavirus-pandemic-is-helping-narrow-global-inequality

(Pandemic/East-West) What Explains the COVID-19 East-West Divide? (Fair Observer)

By John Feffer https://www.fairobserver.com/coronavirus/john-feffer-covid-19-east-west-divide-asia-us-infection-death-rates-eastern-vs-western-values-news-10212/

(Pandemic) Looking for the keys to Covid “success” (The Interpreter)

ALYSSA LENG,  HERVÉ LEMAHIEU https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/looking-for-keys-covid-success

(USA) COVID-19: Urgent Federal actions to accelerate America’s response (James C. Capretta, AEI)

https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/covid-19-urgent-federal-actions-to-accelerate-americas-response/

(Pandemic/Inequalities) The Problem with the COVID Convergence (Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Project-Syndicate)

One of the most surprising global trends to appear during the COVID-19 pandemic is a reduction of inequality across countries, owing to the disproportionate...

(USA/Pandemic) Transition 2021 Series: Ending the COVID-19 Pandemic (CFR)

Panelists discuss the challenges of ending the COVID-19 pandemic and what steps the Biden administration should take to curb the spread, including increased and improved...

(USA/Pandemic) Biden says US to buy 200 million more COVID vaccine doses (Al Jazeera)

Joe Biden says US will accelerate delivery of vaccines to states and localities, but warns progress will take time. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/26/us-to-purchase-more-vaccine-doses-from-pfizer-moderna