Analysis
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…
Analysis
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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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…
Analysis
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…
Analysis
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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What should Bangladesh do now?
Bangladesh cannot lag behind in dealing with the current economic crisis Increasing foreign trade, inward remittance, FDI, overseas remittance for education, health, and service sectors over…
Analysis
Race for coronavirus vaccine faces early challenges
Drug companies are racing to develop a coronavirus vaccine at breakneck speed, but they’re quickly encountering challenges with clinical trials, production capacity and governmental approval. The…
Analysis
COVID-19: to test or not to test
You can’t fight a virus if you don’t know where it is. These were the words of Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr…
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Higher education is key for the post-COVID recovery
The United States economy is in free fall. Businesses have closed and people have been laid off. Unemployment could reach 30%, and if it does there…
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How the role of the dollar in the global economy is changing
Despite the decline in the US share in world production and trade, the role of the dollar in the global financial system continues to grow. This…
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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…
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Coronavirus is shaking up the moral universe and testing profound philosophical questions
The pandemic is also a test of the strength of the ideas humans choose to help them form moral judgments and guide personal and social behaviour.…