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Following the Science: Politicians and Experts
Leaders rely on experts both to help them decide policy and to support them in the decisions they make. They know that in a pandemic like…
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After Little India riot, Singapore promised migrant workers decent housing. What happened?
Some 13,000 migrant workers in dorms – mostly from India, Bangladesh and China – have tested positive for Covid-19 since the start of April. Their living…
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Challenges for South Asia in, and after, pandemic
The primacy of politics in the region will require radical reform to cope with the post-Covid-19 world Mubashar Hasan and Kenji Isezaki In less than three…
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Shift to Plant Based Proteins to Prevent Future Pandemics
Three consignments of African Pangolin scales have been recently seized at ports in two Southeast Asian countries. On the first day of April, port authorities in…
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Situation normal, but all locked up: How Modi govt has risked incapacitating India
India needed to get back to work in stages, instead of extending the induced coma of the lockdown and allowing selective opening up in our colour-coded…
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Who’s Right About the Economy—Jared Kushner or the Chairman of the Federal Reserve?
Jared Kushner was up early on Wednesday to offer his opinions about the coronavirus crisis to the hosts of “Fox & Friends,” his father-in-law’s favorite morning…
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Coronavirus requires truth, not conspiracy theories
It has been a shock to discover that more than half the world’s population has been placed under house arrest. Hard to believe a mere bat…
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It Is Time to Rethink Africa
Stereotypes exist for a reason, the positive ones and the negative ones. and for generations the stereotype of Sub-Saharan Africa was poor, hungry and primitive. Before…
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News media in South Asia in a revenue freefall due to COVID-19
They say that the news media loves a crisis. The novel coronavirus pandemic or Covid-19 may well be the century’s most important crisis. Indeed, the viral…
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COVID-19 and the neoliberal state of exception
How do neoliberal governments act in emergency situations when the interests of the private sector top their agenda? Ani Maitra In late February 2020, the Italian…