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“Immune to Evidence”: How Dangerous Coronavirus Conspiracies Spread
Conspiratorial videos and websites about COVID-19 are going viral. Here’s how one of the authors of “The Conspiracy Theory Handbook” says you can fight back. One…
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Malaysia is beating coronavirus, so why should Muhyiddin be worried?
The country, once the worst hit in Southeast Asia, is now relaxing measures after a stunning turnaround in fortunes But the new prime minister is not…
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Coronavirus school closures impact 1.3 billion children – and remote learning is increasing inequality
Victoria Nash and Rebecca Eynon COVID-19 is disrupting education on an unprecedented scale. At the time of writing, UNESCO estimates that nearly 1.3 billion pupils have…
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Should Bangladesh defer LDC graduation?
Debapriya Bhattacharya and Fareha Raida Islam Bangladesh has attained considerable development progress in the past three decades. This has led it to enter a dual-graduation phase—moving…
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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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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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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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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…
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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…