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COVID-19 in the Global South: Impacts and policy responses
by Andrea Ordóñez, Debapriya Bhattacharya, Tausi Kida - Southern Voice - February 23, 2021
How can the development cooperation system support a sustainable recovery from the pandemic in the Global South?
Covid-19: An epidemic is an epidemic. A war is a war | Analysis
- April 12, 2020by Rahul Verma, Suyash Rai - CPR (India)
Metaphors can shape our reality. The COVID-19 epidemic is not a war, and regarding it as such distorts our response to it.
The Coronavirus Pandemic: Dealing with the Economic Crisis
- April 8, 2020by Yamini Aiyar, Rathin Roy - CPR (India)
How should the government design the fiscal stimulus package? What must the government do to protect all Indians?
Prioritisation, selection and distribution of the stimulus package
- April 8, 2020by Khondaker Golam Moazzem - CPR (India)
It is expected that the stimulus package would address the demands of the most affected and most needy during this crisis.
India needs a new social compact
- April 8, 2020by Shyam Saran - CPR (India)
The symbiotic relationship between migrant workers and the economy must be acknowledged when the lockdown ends.
Latin American Anti-Corruption Network's Public Statement on Transparency and Government Accountability to Covid-19
- in Spanish - April 8, 2020Grupo FARO (Ecuador)
A call to the region’s leaders to manage the pandemic with the utmost transparency, regarding all decisions made about COVID.
Firefighting the pandemic is inadvertently teaching India how to govern migration
- April 7, 2020by Mukta Naik - CPR (India)
The emergence of previously unseen migrants has shone a light on mobility questions that the state has shied away from.
Support for household resilience in the face of the socio-economic consequences of COVID-19
- in French - April 6, 2020IPAR (Senegal)
Senegal is using a database to list those affected by the measures to contain the epidemic. Allowing transparent access to support.
Highest transparency, accountability must for proper utilisation of incentives
- April 5, 2020by Fahmida Kathun - CPD (Bangladesh)
Many ways to misuse the money may open up if incentive loans are disbursed based on banks’ relations with customers.
Science and policy in response to the epidemic
- in Spanish - April 5, 2020by Miguel Jaramillo - GRADE (Peru)
A lack of collaboration between the private and public sector has left the country in the dark in how to best combat the virus.
The Coronavirus Pandemic: Why are India’s migrant workers walking home?
- April 2, 2020by Partha Mukhopadhyay, Mukta Naik, Yamini Aiyar - CPR (India)
How is the migrant worker crisis unfolding across the country?
Social protection in the context of the crisis by COVID-19
- in Spanish - April 2, 2020by Lorena Valle, Georgina Cisneros - FUNDAUNGO (El Salvador)
Social security from a human rights approach recognizes people not as beneficiaries, but as agents with rights.
COVID–19 Contingency Plan and a Phased Lockdown Exit Strategy-Recommendations to the Government of Karnataka
- April 1, 2020PAC (India)
Broad data-based trends that might prove useful to the state government’s decision-making in its response to the pandemic.
Not just IAS and police, India’s Covid-19 fight must use panchayats and municipalities too
- March 31, 2020by Rahul Verma, Pradeep Chhibber - CPR (India)
The pandemic crisis will shine a light on India’s state capacity. But should India depend only on its elite bureaucracy?
Migrant workers distrust a state that does not take them into account
- March 31, 2020by Partha Mukhopadhyay, Mukta Naik - CPR (India)
Field studies have consistently claimed short-term labour mobility in India was significant.
The pivotal role of the West African Health Organisation in tackling COVID-19
- March 30, 2020by Ama Pokuaa Fenny - ISSER (Ghana)
WAHO's task is to ensure the coordination of regional health interventions within the ECOWAS region. Is it up to the challenge in times of pandemic?