Friday 4 September: COVID-19 Policy Digest

Friday 4 September: COVID-19 Policy Digest

Nepal

• The arrogance of NCP will be costly (My Republica)
• End impunity, protect rights: HRW (Nepali times)
• Show me the numbers (The Kathmandu Post)
• PM Oli made three false claims (The record)
• Can a sweeping new law counter Nepal’s federal overreach? (The Asia Foundation)
• Containing COVID-19 crisis in Nepal (Observer Research Foundation)

 

Economy        

• Grand Bargain great betrayal (The Hindustan Times)
• The internet is coming – with risks and benefits – to new areas in Asia and the Pacific (Asian Development Blogs)
• The pandemic’s squeeze on international trade (Stimson)
• Covid19 and India’s informal workers: A scrutiny of State Response (Observer Research Foundation)

 

Society

• Injustice, so what? (The Daily Star)

 

Law

• Prez to consolidate power (The Island)

 

Democracy

• Court packing, Indonesia style (Verfassungs Blog)
• Why the Kremlin cannot speak of Navalny’s threat (National Endowment Democracy)

 

Security

• Tibet was China’s first laboratory of repression (Foreign Policy)
• Kashmir and the rise of settler colonialism (Himal South Asia)