Tuesday 12 May: COVID-19 Policy Digest

Tuesday 12 May: COVID-19 Policy Digest

Nepal

• Restarting our economy needs thoughtful policy choices (My Republica)
• A reverse migration apocalypse (The Record)
• Haphazard planning (The Kathmandu Post)
• The Lockdown Budget (The Kathmandu Post)

 

Economy

• Switch expenditure for sustained food security (Policy Forum)
• Free trade now: A case for tariff reductions and non-tariff measures simplifications to fight COVID-19 (coronavirus) (World Bank Blogs)
• Modernizing Punjab’s farming to benefit farmers and consumers (World Bank Blogs)
• US States need federal funding to combat the pandemic (Project Syndicate)
• Five Proposals to tackle COVID-19 in South Asia (Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute)

 

Society

• Helping women and girls survive COVID-19 and its aftermath (Asian Development Blog)
• Stuck in the middle of a pandemic: are international students migrants? (Open Democracy)
• Reimagining think tanks in times of pandemic (IDSA)

 

Law

• Don’t call it reform (The Indian Express)
• COVID-19: Yogi Adityanath attempts reforms, delivers regulatory chaos in Uttar Pradesh (Observer Researcher Foundation)
• Viet Nam: When non-emergency measures equals emergency measures (Verfassungs Blog)

 

Democracy

• COVID crisis exposes ‘chimera of authoritarian competence’ (National Endowment for Democracy)

 

Security

• Biological weapons and biosecurity – Lessons from the COVID-19 war (Observer Researcher Foundation)

 

Other

• Vietnam defies the odds on COVID-19 (Lowy Institute)