Friday 21 August: COVID-19 Policy Digest
Nepal
- Time for India and Nepal to make up (The Hindu)
- At midpoint, Nepal PM struggles to deliver (Nepali Times)
- Workers left in the lurch (Record Nepal)
- The morass that is Melamchi (The Kathmandu Post)
- Economic woes may lead to a political disaster (My Republica)
- Pathology of an ultranationalist regime (The Kathmandu Post)
Economy
- Resume Indo-Bangladesh Border Haats in a bio-secured manner (Northeast Now)
- Tourism trauma and COVID-19 (IMF Blogs)
- Building back better means designing cash transfers for women’s empowerment (The World Bank Blogs)
- Rethinking MGNREGA in the post COVID19 era (Observer Research Foundation)
- Do remittances lead to dependency? The case of Timor-Leste (Dev Policy)
- A fair-trade world (Dawn)
Society
- Nigeria: Four human rights NGOs warn of deteriorating civic space (Article 19)
- Civil society groups that mobilised around COVID-19 face important choices (The Conversation)
Law
- Elections and civil-military relations in Myanmar (Observer Research Foundation)
Federalism
- How COVID-19 is changing Indian federalism (Carnegie India)
Democracy
- Rift in democratic attitudes opening up across the world (National Endowment for Democracy)
Security
- Policing and pandemic (Policy Forum)
- By inventing military threats, Lukashenka is playing with fire (Chatham House)
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