Thursday 23 April: COVID-19 Policy Digest

Thursday 23 April: COVID-19 Policy Digest

Nepal

• How to save the economy from the pandemic (My Republica)
• On ending this lockdown (The Kathmandu Post)

 

Economy

• Amid COVID-19, the time to act is now to protect food security (Asian Development Blog)
• Planning for the economic recovery from COVID-19: A sustainability checklist for policymakers (World Bank Blogs)
• COVID-19: How do we re-open the economy? (Chatham House)

 

Society

• Bend it like Kerala: How an Indian state is holding its own against COVID-19 (Observer Research Foundation)
• The Politics of responding to COVID-19 in developing countries (Effective States and Inclusive Development)
• Civil Society and the coronavirus: Dynamism despite disruption (Carnegie Endowment of International Peace)

 

Law

• Don’t be fooled by autocrats! (Verfassungs Blog)

 

Democracy

• COVID-19’s new pretexts for consolidating autocrats’ power (National Endowment for Democracy)

 

Security

• Broken ties, frozen border: Colombia and Venezuela face COVID-19 (International Crisis Group)