Friday 21 August: COVID-19 Policy Digest

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)