Tag: Pandemic

India – How tech is helping India’s rural women get through COVID-19 (Roli Srivastava, Anuradha Nagaraj, Thomson Reuters Foundation, WEF)

The current COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed India's digital inequalities. One of these is the digital gender gap, with only a third of...

Pandemic/Vaccination – 99% of people in poor countries are still unvaccinated – here’s why we need to take action now (Maria De Jesus, The...

According to public health experts, 70% of the world's 7.9 billion people must be fully vaccinated to end the pandemic. On June 21,...

Report: COVID-19 made the world less peaceful (Sean Fleming, WEF)

At least 158 countries recorded pandemic-related violence between January 2020 and April 2021. These incidents ranged from individual attacks to anti-lockdown demonstrations that...

Pandemic/Governance Systems – Pandemics and Political Performance (Francis Fukuyama, Luis Felipe López-Calva, Project-Syndicate)

The huge variation in how countries have performed during the pandemic points to deeper underlying political and governance issues that have now come fully...

Vaccine/Pandemic/G7 – The G7 Vaccine Charade (James K. Galbraith, Project-Syndicate)

The US and Europe are offering low- and middle-income countries crumbs, so that they can protect their billionaires, their pharmaceutical lobbies, and their campaign...

Vaccine/Pandemic – Vaccine Hesitancy or Systemic Racism? (Tian Johnson, Stephaun E. Wallace, Maaza Seyoum, Project-Syndicate)

Minority communities and developing-country populations may approach health services cautiously – and with good reason, given the medical profession's history of inhumanity. But, by...

Pandemic/Women’s Employment – How is COVID-19 affecting women’s employment? Evidence from the World Bank’s Gender Innovation Labs (Jessica Gesund, World Bank blogs)

At the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts were quick to warn us about the disproportionate impact the crisis would have on socially excluded...

Education/Pandemic – How to best support and protect young children during COVID-19? Some lessons learned (Ella Humphry, Amanda Devercelli, World Bank blogs)

Young children and their families have been particularly vulnerable during the COVID-19 crisis. A survey of caregivers during COVID-19 in Pakistan found that emotional well-being of...

Pandemic/Vaccine Supply Chain – WTO to host technical symposium on COVID-19 vaccine supply chain, regulatory transparency (WTO)

The WTO will hold on 29 June 2021 a technical symposium to contribute to improved public and policymaker understanding of the operation of global...

Pandemic/Economics – Surviving the pandemic: A business perspective (Filip Jolevski, Silvia Muzi, Kohei Ueda, Domenico Viganola, World Bank blogs)

Thoughtful man with a mask behind the glass of his restaurant closed by COVID-19. David Pereiras / Shutterstock.com As the global COVID-19 pandemic shows signs...

Sustainable Cities and Communities/Fourth Industrial Revolution/Pandemic – Small local innovators are highly effective at tackling big global threats. Here’s why (Flora Rosenow, Katerina Hoskova,...

Gender equality and the fight against climate breakdown have been set back by the pandemic. Income stagnation and inequalities are compromising our global...

South Korea – Policy and institutional responses to COVID-19: South Korea (Paul Dyer, Brookings)

While South Korea has suffered from several waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, its public health system has been able to combat outbreaks effectively, limiting...

TechInnovation – L’AI per l’analizzare l’andamento contagi: lo studio italiano (Luigi Lella, Ignazio Licata, Christian Pristipino, Agenda Digitale)

Modelli di machine learning possono essere utilizzati per capire quali fattori sembrano influenzare l’andamento della variazione dei contagi nelle varie regioni. Uno studio ha analizzato...

Canada – Privacy in the Precision Economy: The Rise of AI-Enabled Workplace Surveillance during the Pandemic (Teresa Scassa, CIGI)

Privacy in the Precision Economy: The Rise of AI-Enabled Workplace Surveillance during the Pandemic - Centre for International Governance Innovation (cigionline.org)

Global – Extraordinary claims on Covid-19’s origin require extraordinary evidence (Richard Harrison, The Strategist)

 Image: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images. Extraordinary claims on Covid-19’s origin require extraordinary evidence | The Strategist (aspistrategist.org.au)

Global – How Domestic Budget Shortfalls Due to COVID-19 Impact Climate Action (Molly Caldwell, Natalia Alayza and Gaia Larsen, WEF)

How Domestic Budget Shortfalls Due to COVID-19 Impact Climate Action | World Resources Institute (wri.org)