COVID-19 – China Tells World Health Assembly They Did their Best
At the World Health Assembly, Chinese President Xi Jinping said they did their “best to stem cross-border transmission” of COVID-19...
Month: September 2024
What is lost in the smoke of COVID-19
Devyn Holliday, Research Officer, Economic, Youth & Sustainable Development Directorate This blog is part of the seminar series on...
Africa’s Post-pandemic Future Needs to Embrace Youth in Agriculture
Aslihan Arslan, Senior Economist, Research and Impact Assessment Division, IFAD and Zoumana Bamba, IITA Country Representative, DR CongoJun 29 2020...
Corporate Bailout or Cash Transfers for All, including Children?
Sabine Saliba is Regional Advisor for the Middle East and North Africa at the Child Rights International Network (CRIN) Batara...
A Marathon, Not a Sprint: Peru Needs Fiscal Reforms to Quell High COVID-19 Death Rate
Laura Adriaensens,LL.M. in International Legal Studies at New York University (NYU) School of Law, Fulbright and BAEF Fellow, M. A....
Africa Must not Assume a ‘Business as Usual’ Approach to COVID-19 Recovery
Peter Kamalingin B.L. is the Pan Africa Program Director for Oxfam InternationalJennifer Cynthia Nyakonga, a 24-year-old teacher in Palabek Refugee...
Celebrating Vanuatu’s Path to Sustainable Development
BANGKOK, Thailand, Dec 10 2020 (IPS) - The Pacific Island Developing State of Vanuatu has emerged as one of the...
Feminist Movements Continue to Battle Culture of Impunity in Egypt
Mozn HassanNEW DELHI, India, Jan 25 2021 (IPS) - Ten years ago on this day, January 25, one of the...
Vaccine Passports Are Controversial But Their Technology Will Bring Big Benefits to Developing Countries
UN Secretary-General António Guterres gets vaccinated against COVID-19 at Adlai Stevenson High School in the Bronx, New York last week....
IMF, World Bank Must Support Developing Countries’ Recovery
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 6 2021 (IPS) - The COVID-19 pandemic continues to take an unprecedented human and economic...