Friday 14 August: COVID-19 Policy Digest

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)