Friday 14 August: COVID-19 Policy Digest
Nepal
- Supremely biased (Record Nepal)
- Global glove makers compensate Nepali workers (Nepali Times)
- When land comes in the way: India’s connectivity infrastructure in Nepal (Brookings India)
- Less money coming in (The Kathmandu Post)
Economy
- Xi Jinping is reinventing state capitalism. Don’t underestimate it (The Economist)
- Yunnan in a development dilemma (The Kathmandu Post)
- Are Financial Markets None the Wiser? (Project Syndicate)
Society
- What is the value of civil society in the COVID-19 crisis? (Health system Response Monitor)
- Empower civil society to reduce fragility, ease transitions (National Endowment for Democracy)
Law
- How to tackle coronavirus corruption (Foreign Policy)
- A sham democracy (Dawn)
- Right by birth: On daughters and Hindu succession act (Hindu)
- Hardline conservationists fail to see possibilities of people-wildlife coexistence (The Indian Express)
Democracy
- Belarus: Protests against controversial elections should not be met with police violence (Article 19)
Security
- The other global power shift (Project Syndicate)
- The ever-growing danger of nuclear weapons (Observer Research Foundation)
Other
- Kamala Harris Is the Future, So Mike Pence May Well Be History (The New York Times)
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