Monday 20 April: COVID-19 Policy Digest

Monday 20 April: COVID-19 Policy Digest

Nepal

• Working across Nepal’s data ecosystem as the economic crisis starts to hit (Dev Policy Blog)
• A failure of leadership (The Kathmandu Post)

 

Economy

• COVID-19: Food, nutrition and the global poor (Dev Policy Blog)
• To survive the pandemic, Indonesia’s urban poor need economic support and help with basic services (Asian Development Blog)
• Suspend emerging and developing economies’ debt payments (Project Syndicate)

 

Society

• Civil society can offer a third way to help deal with the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa (New African Magazine)
• Civil society’s role in public health crisis (Issues in Science and Technology)

 

Law

• Right restriction or restricting rights? The UK Acts to address COVID-19 (Verfassungs Blog)

 

Democracy

• A virus, social democracy, and dividends for Kerala (The Hindu)
• The territorial politics of coronavirus: Is this the hour of central government? (Democratic Audit)
• Viral Authoritarianism (Project Syndicate)

 

Security

• Why heavy-handed policing won’t work for lockdowns in highly unequal countries (The Conversation)

 

Other

• States’ response to COVID-19 pandemic in India: The Odisha Model (Society for the Study of Peace and Conflict)