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Post pandemic outlook for HE is bleakest for the poorest
Philip G Altbach and Hans de Wit In the midst of crisis, with the scope and outcomes largely unclear, it is too early to accurately predict…
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Coronavirus: food security, Asia’s next battle in a post-Covid world
In theory there is no reason to fear a food crisis like the one that shook the world in 2007 But fear itself, spread by the…
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Corona — our debt to Darwin
CHARLES Darwin is a name Pakistanis are taught to hate. School teachers and university professors tasked with teaching his evolutionary theory usually skip the subject or,…
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In India, lockdown protects the rich – and exposes poor to a humanitarian and economic disaster
For Indians on the margins, social distancing, work from home and self-isolation are nonsensical ideas. Mark Hannant As a British citizen living in India, I have…
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The Coronavirus Is the World’s Only Superpower
Trump’s America? Not so much. On Tuesday, the U.N. Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, said the coronavirus pandemic is the greatest challenge that the world has faced since…
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We need more democracy, not less
Nearly 40 years ago, when I wrote Sleepers, Wake!, I was arguing for a more rational, evidence-based approach to long-term problems of society, economy, environment, work,…
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Who will fight the war of General Coronavirus?
As the pandemic is ravaging the whole world, exacting a historic toll on economies and societies, it is no time to draw conclusions but high time…
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Do it now. Right away
What happens next? Will the world be saved, but only for the rich few, as in 2008; and will digitisation and surveillance become the new order?…
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The Race Between Economics and COVID-19
For years, the economics profession has suffered from a stubborn reluctance to adopt a more multidisciplinary approach. But now that the COVID-19 pandemic is transforming economic…
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Today’s Covid-19 Data will be tomorrow’s tools of Oppression
We all face the risk that surveillance will turn state borders into 21st-century Iron Curtains, raising constitutional conundrums that would have been unthinkable just days ago.…
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How Terrorist Groups Will Try to Capitalize on the Coronavirus Crisis
Extremists from across the political spectrum have been exploiting COVID-19. Violent extremists capitalize on a crisis: These events open up the political space for them to…
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Priorities in the times of coronavirus
Since December 8, 2019, when a first known case of pneumonia with unknown aetiology was found in Wuhan City, China, the world has been badly tangled…