Tag: Pandemic

(Pandemic/Global Economy) New COVID-19 lockdowns imperil global economy’s recovery (Al Jazeera)

Vaccine roll-outs have been a major reason for investors’ rosy outlook, but concerns about mutant strains have tempered optimism. https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/1/13/global-recovery-at-risk-of-being-pushed-back-by-fresh-lockdowns

(Pandemic/Digital Payments) 7 lessons COVID-19 taught us about improving digital payments (Yan Xiao, Keyzom Ngodup, WEF)

COVID-19 accelerated the rise of digital payments, increasing financial inclusion but also raising risks. A group of leaders from the public and private...

(Pandemic/World/USA) COVID-19 exposes a changed world: A prescription for renewing US global partnership (George Ingram, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/covid-19-exposes-a-changed-world-a-prescription-for-renewing-us-global-partnership/

(Pandemic) COVID-19 a year later: What have we learned? (Dario Gil, WEF)

In the year since COVID-19 emerged, the world has seen 85 million cases of the disease and counting. The pandemic showed the power...

(Southeast Asia/Pandemic) What state-party relations mean for COVID-19 management in Southeast Asia (Thomas Pepinsky, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/01/07/what-state-party-relations-mean-for-covid-19-management-in-southeast-asia/

(Pandemic/Education) Reimagining girls’ education during COVID-19: Lessons from adapting programs and measures (Christine H. Beggs and Lucina Di Meco, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2021/01/07/reimagining-girls-education-during-covid-19-lessons-from-adapting-programs-and-measures/

(Australia) Policy and institutional responses to COVID-19: Australia (Tony Goldner and Andrew Letzkus, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/policy-and-institutional-responses-to-covid-19-australia/

China COVID cases at highest in five months amid Hebei outbreak (Al Jazeera)

The number of new COVID-19 cases in China nearly doubled on Wednesday as more patients were confirmed with the virus in Hebei, the province...

BANGLADESH/PANDEMIC – COVID-19 ails Bangladesh’s health, politics and economy (Ali Riaz, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/01/05/covid-19-ails-bangladeshs-health-politics-and-economy/

MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA/PANDEMIC – Infographic: The stringency of Middle East and North Africa’s COVID-19 response (Paul Dyer, Isaac Schaider, and Andrew Letzkus, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/interactives/infographic-the-stringency-of-middle-east-and-north-africas-covid-19-response/

ISRAEL – The secret sauce behind Israel’s successful COVID-19 vaccination program (Dany Bahar, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/01/05/the-secret-sauce-behind-israels-successful-covid-19-vaccination-program/

PANDEMIC/DEVELOPMENT/DEBT – World Bank urges ‘greener, smarter, more equitable’ recovery path (Al Jazeera)

The economic disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are giving countries an opportunity to pursue “greener, smarter, more equitable” development paths, but onerous debt...

PANDEMIC – The Mutated Virus Is a Ticking Time Bomb (Zeynep Tufekci, Defense One)

There is much we don’t know about the new COVID-19 variant—but everything we know so far suggests a huge danger. https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2021/01/mutated-virus-ticking-time-bomb/171115/

CAMBODIA – COVID-19 worsens Cambodia’s political oppression (Katrin Travouillon, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/01/05/covid-19-worsens-cambodias-political-oppression/

USA – COVID-19 sparks an overdue discussion on education reform: An optimistic vision (Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Elias Blinkoff, Helen Shwe Hadani, and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff,...

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2021/01/04/covid-19-sparks-an-overdue-discussion-on-education-reform-an-optimistic-vision/

PANDEMIC/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA – Infographic: COVID-19 fatality in the Middle East and North Africa (Paul Dyer, Isaac Schaider, and Andrew Letzkus, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/interactives/infographic-covid-19-fatality-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/