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Healthcare in the time of Covid-19: What can Bangladesh do?
Fahmida Khatun and Syed Yusuf Saadat Throughout the world, governments of various countries are taking extraordinary measures to deal with the crisis created by the COVID-19…
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The Arab states need to be completely honest about coronavirus
Muhammad Hussein At the beginning of this month, pro-Assad journalist Rafiq Lutf wrote on Twitter that he had discovered many people infected with the coronavirus in…
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The Imitation Games That Authoritarians Play
The subtlest way to undermine democracy is to fake it. Aryeh Neier In their book The Light That Failed, Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes tell a…
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Covid-19: The era of perpetual emergency and the emerging new normal?
Ali Riaz Little did we know on the night of December 31, 2019 that we were about to begin not only a new year but a…
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Covid-19 and the Rohingya refugee crisis
The first confirmed case in Cox’s Bazar exposes how our systems fail the most vulnerable Athena Rayburn All around the world, the numbers are climbing. Each…
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The Cost of This Pandemic Must Not Bankrupt the People
The global pandemic of COVID-19 has spread to almost every country on the planet earth. The virus will take many lives, disrupt communities and institutions, and…
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How corona broke the system
The corona crisis sends shockwaves through political, economic and social systems. The status quo simply cannot continue. Marc Saxer No one knows how long the pandemic…
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An opportunity to change international higher education?
Kalyani Unkule The COVID-19 epidemic has struck a blow to physical mobility worldwide. Notices about institutional closures, social distancing and self-quarantining have compelled us all to…
Analysis
India’s descent from a 50-50 to a 30-70 democracy
Our democracy was always imperfect and flawed. It was the Congress which, when in power, first politicised the police and civil services, first destabilised elected state…
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WHO’s Coronavirus Response: A wake-up call or missed call?
Mohammed Parvez Imdad We are passing through critical times. The world has never seen such gloom and uncertainty since the World War II. Despite its technological…