Tuesday 1 September: COVID-19 Policy Digest
Nepal
- Qatar scraps the kafala sponsorship system, liberating workers from a modern day form of slavery (The Record)
- COVID-19 funding in federal systems: Lessons from Nepal (International Growth Centre)
- Two killers: Cities and centralism (The Kathmandu post)
- Defying predictions, Nepal’s remittances still high (Nepali Times)
- How the government is failing education (My Republica)
- Land comes in the way of Modi govt’s Neighbourhood First and Act East, study shows (The print)
- Shyam Sharan’s punitive prescriptions: Perils to Nepal-India relations (My Republica)
- An interview with Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Hou Yanqi (The Annapurna Express)
Economy
- The crowding – out myth (Project Syndicate)
- In ‘act of god’, coercive not cooperative federalism (The Hindu)
- Has the dollar started its long decline? (Chatham House)
- Environmental regulatory system should be bridge between community, industry (The Indian Express)
- Covid economic recovery a long-term test for Australian leadership (Lowy Institute)
- Two pandemics (Dawn)
Society
- Women’s access to stimulus packages and post Covid-19 gender equality (The Daily Star)
- Side-stepping rights: Regulating speech by contract (Article 19)
Law
- Maldives’ rocky road to transitional justice (Himal South Asian)
- The inconvenient truth about China’s International Commercial Courts (Observer Research Foundation)
Democracy
- Why Russians and Belarusians are rejecting ‘backwards-looking autocrats’ (National Endowment Democracy)
Security
- India’s Kashmir Conundrum (Stimson)
- Is South Asia headed for border breakdown? (Policy Forum)
Other
- What will be Abe’s legacy as the longest-serving prime minister? (The Japan Times)
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