Tuesday 28 July: COVID-19 Policy Digest

Tuesday 28 July: COVID-19 Policy Digest

Nepal

• Nepal-India-China tri-junction (The Kathmandu Post)
• Fake news can destroy Nepal’s relations with India, China and US (My Republica)
• The court’s course correction (Record Nepal)
• CIAA traps small fish, lets big ones go (Nepali Times)
• Decoding monetary policy (My Republica)

Economy                                                                                

• The COVID-19 gender gap (IMF Blog)
• Managing Chinese economic risks means more than diversification (Lowy Institute)
• COVID-19: FDI dynamism in South and Southeast Asia (Observer Research Foundation)
• The open secret to reopening the economy (Project Syndicate)

Society

• Soldiers or health care professionals? Pakistan’s stressed medical personnel (LSE Blogs South-Asia)
• Domestic Violence in Ukraine: Lessons from COVID-19 (Chatham House)

Law

• No country for dissent (Verfassungs Blog)
• Rajasthan case shows that institutions charged with holding the line are crossing it (The Indian Express)

Democracy

• MBS: The dismal consistency of Saudi tyranny (National Endowment for Democracy)

Security                                                                                                                                        

• The confluence of four powers and two seas (The Hindu)
• Defence and aid: unprecedented divergence (Dev Policy Blog)
• US and China are both raising the military stakes in the South China Sea (Open Democracy)