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Putin Withdraws From the Coronavirus Crisis in a Political Abdication
Putin is clearly eager to avoid being identified with the pandemic and the difficult measures being adopted to fight it. Mark Galeotti Abdication tends to be…
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A wake-up call for universal social protection
Fahmida Khatun and Syed Yusuf Saadat The coronavirus pandemic has bluntly exposed how a large number of people across the world are susceptible to health and…
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Plans after the pandemic
Nepalis knew all along that the economy, based largely on remittance, is unsustainable. But we never realised that it would meet such a chaotic fate. Madhukar…
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From social solidarity to economic solidarity
COVID-19 has exposed the fallacious estrangement, alienation and segregation in social relations. As the contagion dispersed from local households to firms to the global sphere, distorted…
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Unlocking SME finance through credit guarantee schemes
CGSs can be leveraged to provide countercyclical financing to SMEs during an economic slowdown – like that of the ongoing Covid-19 crisis Mamun Rashid and Avirup…
Analysis
Can The Liberal World Order Survive Another Four Years of Trump? Probably not. Here’s why.
Donald Trump’s critics have often charged him with ignorance and a lack of a strategic approach to foreign policy. This is a profound misunderstanding of the…
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Yes, we need a global coronavirus inquiry, but not for petty political point-scoring
Paul Komesaroff, Ian Kerridge and Ross Upshur The US government’s call for an international inquiry into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic has a clear political…
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COVID-19 and the Global Economic Recovery: Why We Should Be Thinking About “Doughnut Economics”
The world will never be the same once COVID-19 has run its full course, and in some ways that is not a bad thing. The virus…
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Does Donald Trump Want to Be Re-Elected?
The president’s inattention to the coronavirus doesn’t suggest someone desperate to win in November. It’s becoming more and more obvious that President Donald Trump has simply…
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A dangerous gamble
THE sight of the multitudes thronging marketplaces and the stream of traffic choking the roads while the curve of Covid-10 cases continues to rise is frightening.…