Friday 24 April: COVID-19 Policy Digest

Friday 24 April: COVID-19 Policy Digest

• Nepal’s exit strategy (Nepali Times)
• Nepalis in London on the receiving end of xenophobia amidst Covid-19 fears (The Kathmandu Post)

 

Economy

• COVID-19: South Asian countries need a migrant worker-friendly disaster management policy (Observer Research Foundation)
• COVID-19 will hit the poor hardest. Here’s what we can do about it (World Bank Blogs)
• Curfews are a safer plan than total lockdowns to slow COVID-19’s spread in informal economies (Quatrz Africa)

 

Society

• Italy, democracy and COVID-19 (P2P Foundation)
• COVID-19 and Chinese civil society’s response (Stanford Social Innovation Review)
• How the coronavirus pandemic exploits the worst aspects of extreme inequality (Oxfam International)

 

Law

• Exporting the Italian model to fight COVID-19 (The Regulatory Review)
• States of emergencies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic (Centre for Civil and Political Rights)

 

Democracy

• In the Gulf, migrant workers fear for their future (Open Democracy)
• Autocratic assertion meets democratic dereliction (National Endowment for Democracy)

 

Security

• ISIS looks to prosper in a world distracted by the virus (The Lowy Institute)

 

Other

• Who can do better – But halting funding is no answer (The Chatham House)