Tag: Pandemic

How the pandemic has changed our use of public transport (WEF)

Sonia Elks - Journalist, Reuters Concerns about COVID-19 mean more people are using cars instead of public transport, according to a new report. Too many cars...

International Financial Institutions’ Covid-19 Approvals through Q1 2021 Surpass $260 Billion (CSIS)

Stephanie Segal, Dylan Gerstel The CSIS Economics Program is tracking commitments and approvals by major international financial institutions (IFIs) to meet the massive financing needs...

USA – How big of a vaccine surplus will the US have? (Brookings)

Simon J. Evenett The Biden administration is busy burnishing America’s global credentials. The U.S. Treasury wants an international approach to corporate tax. Meanwhile, climate change...

How we can secure oxygen for COVID-19 patients and beyond (WEF)

Trevor Duke New waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in countries such as Kenya and India, have shone a spotlight on the availability and accessibility. ...

COVID-19 has cost the world’s women $800 billion in lost income (WEF)

Sophia Sun According to Oxfam, COVID-19 has caused women around the world $800 billion in lost income. Some governments have already taken steps to...

(Global Financing/Pandemic) Global Financing to End the Pandemic (Project-Syndicate)

JEFFREY D. SACHS A new allocation of up to $650 billion worth of the IMF’s reserve asset, special drawing rights, would ensure that governments have...

(Pandemic/India) Boosting India’s COVID-19 vaccination drive (East Asia Forum)

Padmanesan Narasimhan, UNSW India is one of the worst affected countries by COVID-19, with an estimated 11.4 million cases and over 160,000 deaths as of 30...

(Pandemic/India) Second wave of COVID-19: Causes and solutions (ORF)

AMIT THADANI The behaviour of the COVID-19 pandemic is not particularly unusual with regard to its resurgence as “waves.” https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/second-wave-covid-19-causes-solutions/

(Saudi Arabia/Pandemic) Stricter measures are in public’s hands, say Saudi officials (Arab News)

More than 15.2 million PCR tests have been conducted in the Kingdom since the beginning of the pandemic, 53,777 of which conducted in the...

(USA/Pandemic/Indigenous Communities) Indigenous communities demonstrate innovation and strength despite unequal losses during COVID-19 (Brookings)

Victoria M. O’Keefe. Melissa L. Walls CDC report revealed COVID-19 incidence rates were 3.5 times higher for American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) compared to White Americans...

(USA/FED/Pandemic) What’s the Fed doing in response to the COVID-19 crisis? What more could it do? (Brookings)

Jeffrey Cheng, Tyler Powell, Dave Skidmore, and David Wessel The coronavirus crisis in the United States—and the associated business closures, event cancellations, and work-from-home policies—triggered a deep economic...

(Facebook/Venezuela) Facebook freezes Maduro’s page for COVID misinformation (Al Jazeera)

The Venezuelan president has touted Carvativir oral solution as a ‘miracle’ to combat the virus, without evidence. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/27/facebook-freezes-maduro-page-over-covid-misinformation-venezuela

(Pandemic) Virus variants point to need to scale manufacturing (Al Jazeera)

Peter Singer New realities are imposing themselves, demanding different approaches to disease surveillance and vaccine development, production and distribution. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/3/26/virus-variants-point-to-need-to-scale

(Pandemic/Global Economy) The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global industrial production (AEI)

Steven B. Kamin and John Kearns The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the sharpest downturn in the world economy since the Great Depression, with global GDP projected...

(Pandemic) COVID-19: The patriarchal pandemic (Al Jazeera)

Belen Fernandez In the past year, the pandemic has negatively affected women disproportionately more than men. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/3/22/covid-19-the-patriarchal-pandemic

(Pandemic) Infographic: How has the world changed since COVID-19? (Al Jazeera)

Mohammed Haddad It has been one year since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. The virus, which is microscopic in size, has,...