Friday 15 May: COVID-19 Policy Digest

Friday 15 May: COVID-19 Policy Digest

Nepal

• A COVID challenge for Nepal Army (My Republica)
• Nationalism, migration and the impending job crisis (The Kathmandu Post)
• Has Nepal’s lockdown just postponed COVID-19? (Nepali Times)
• Maelstrom of collective narcissism (The Kathmandu Post)
• The art of being heard (The Kathmandu Post)
• Nepal’s federal success (The Record)

 

Economy

• How nutrition can protect people’s health during COVID-19 (World Bank Blogs)
• Supporting workers’ transition to a new normal amid COVID-19 (World Bank Blog)
• Making the best of a post-pandemic world (Project Syndicate)
• After COVID-19, it’s in everyone’s interest to help the world’s poorest countries (The Guardian)

 

Society

• Responding to COVID-19 at the grassroots (The Hindu)
• The Kerala Model (Project Syndicate)
• Covid-19 and social protection needs: who are the most vulnerable? (Institute of Development Studies)
• Covid-19 and social protection responses: time for a global safety net? (Institute of Development Studies)
• Covid-19 and the acceleration of state surveillance (Lowy Institute)

 

Law

• Is there a space for federalism in times of emergency? (Verfassungs Blog)
• Migrant Workmen Act, 1979, must be rationalized to remove requirements that disincentive formalization (Carnegie India)

 

Democracy

• Autocracy in El Salvador? (Open Democracy)
• Covid-19: Threats and Opportunities for Democracy (Inter-American Development Bank)

 

Security

• The Taliban’s empty promises of peace (Lowy Institute)

 

Other

• The coronavirus slayer! How Kerala’s rock star health minister helped save it from COVID-19 (The Guardian)
• Vietnam’s low-cost COVID-19 battle shows the world what can be done (Dev Policy)