Friday 28 August: COVID-19 Policy Digest

Friday 28 August: COVID-19 Policy Digest

Nepal

• Nepal must reboot human rights, rule of law (Nepali Times)
• Nepotism continues to flourish under the Oli government (The Record)
• Justice and subterfuge (The Kathmandu Post)
• India-Nepal Bilateral Dialogue is the only way forward (Kathmandu Pati)
• Understanding contempt of court (My Republica)

Economy        

• COVID-19: Without help, low-income developing countries risk a lost decade (IMF Blogs)
• Now is the time to reduce remittance costs (Dev Policy)
• India must leverage its market to force China to settle border issue amicably (The Indian express)

 

Society

• There is better way of measuring poverty (Policy Forum)
• Côte d’Ivoire: Civic space is shrinking with ten persons killed and government ban on protests (Article 19)
• Good governance roadmap (Dawn)

 

Law

• Can the International Criminal Court Help Belarus? (Chatham House)

 

Democracy

• Latin America’s Covid-driven populism: Democracy at risk or resilient? (National Endowment for Democracy)
• Russians and Belarusians are tired of backwards-looking autocrats (The Economist)

 

Security

• What’s behind the new Israel-UAE peace deal? (Council on Foreign Relations)
• The elusive watersheds of Ladakh: Explaining India and China’s missing border (Observer Research Foundation)
• Time to develop a reliable flood forecasting model (Daily Star)

 

Other

• From frontier to boundary (Himal Southasian)