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Just hoping coronavirus will bypass Africa, would be a deadly mistake
Tens of millions of people in Africa could become destitute as a result of COVID-19 and its catastrophic impact on fragile economies and health...
South Asia: A COVID-19 Outlier?
International observers remain baffled at the rate of spread and impact of Corona on one of the most populous regions in the world. South...
Covid-19 pandemic: Legal, political and environmental questions for China
The outbreak and worldwide spread of COVID-19 is bound to raise questions about where and how the infection originated and turned into a global...
COVID-19 to Impact Lao PDR Growth, Debt in 2020
Lao PDR’s economic growth is projected to decline in 2020 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and measures to contain its spread,...
Use SDGs and Paris Agreement to Guide Recovery from COVID-19
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Asian Development Bank (ADB), and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) jointly...
The Covid-19 crisis is hurting but not halting global growth in renewable power capacity
The world is set to build fewer wind turbines, solar plants and other installations that produce renewable electricity this year because of the impact...
The Pandemic Revives the Debate on Development and its Discontents
Authors: N.S Abhilasha and Aishwarya Bhuta
The COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a devastating blow to lives and livelihoods across the world. No nation-state, be it...
Border controls in Schengen due to coronavirus: what can the EU do?
Travelling freely in the EU was until two months ago a given for most Europeans, but restrictions introduced to halt the spread of the...
Coronavirus: The Collapse of Higher Education -Or its Revolution?
This is the first time higher education has faced the dual-crisis of finance and health.
After World War II, the American higher education foresaw a...
The 3 big shifts of Post COVID-19 world
Thomas Friedman in a conversation, Off the Cuff with Shekhar Gupta talked about three pandemics of the world that he had lived with---9/11, 2008...