Friday 22 May: COVID-19 Policy Digest

Friday 22 May: COVID-19 Policy Digest

Nepal

• Lockdowns and national borders: How to manage the Nepal-India border crossing during COVID-19 (LSE South Asia Centre)
• COVID-19, Government’s Policy and Programmes, and the Budget (Nepal Economic Forum)
• Failed strategy (The Kathmandu Post)
• New Delhi’s Nepal conundrum (Observer Research Foundation)
• Exaggerated concerns (The Kathmandu Post)

 

Economy

• The pandemic exposes dangers of the informal economy (Foreign Affairs)
• Migrant remittances will plummet. Here is what that means for global development (Centre for Global Development)
• Making economies more resilient to downturns (IMF Blogs)

 

Society

• India was already a surveillance state. Its COVID-19 app even goes further (Coda)
• A call to action on open budgets during the COVID-19 response (Oxfam Blogs)

 

Law

• Can parliament exercise effective control over the emergency legislation? (Verfassungs Blog)
• Myanmar: Restriction on expression in communicable diseases bill would undermine COVID-19 response (Article 19)

 

Democracy

• Democracies are better at managing crisis (My Republica)
• Illiberal Hungary ‘mounting an ambitious ideological campaign’? (National Endowment for Democracy)
• Madeleine Albright on authoritarianism and the fight against the virus (The Economist)

 

Security

• Fragile states need support to fight COVID-19 (Dev Policy)
• The Afghan peace process and the foreign press: Between bluster and nation-building (Observer Research Foundation)