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)
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