Tuesday 1 September: COVID-19 Policy Digest

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)