Tuesday 6 October: COVID-19 Policy Digest

Tuesday 6 October: COVID-19 Policy Digest

 

Nepal

• What a ‘missing’ border pillar tells about Nepal-China relations (The Kathmandu Post)
• The theory and practice of zero-cost migration (Nepali Times)
• The OMNI scandal and its impacts (Record Nepal)
• Unemployment problem cannot be addressed unless all levels of govt work together to create jobs within the country (The Himalayan Times)
• Substandard mechanism (The Kathmandu Post)
• Changing mindsets on federalism the most difficult challenge for Nepal: An interview with Valerie Julliand (The Annapurna Express)

                          

Economy        

• Countries in Central and West Asia must avoid a COVID-19 race to the bottom (Asian Development Blog)
• Reform of the international debt architecture is urgently needed (IMF Blogs)
• How to end the pandemic this year (Project Syndicate)
• Public investment for the recovery (IMF Blogs)
• Covid19 and the urban poor: India’s nowhere people (Observer Research foundation)

 

Society

• Has the Noakhali gang rape shaken us enough? (The Daily Star)
• Who am I? An oppressed Dalit, a suppressed woman? (The Indian Express)
• The Bajhang rape and murder case (Record Nepal)

 

Law

• Constitution making: (The Island)
• Too little, too little (Verfassungs blog)

 

Democracy

• Is COVID-19 a threat to democracy (National Endowment for Democracy)

 

Security

• The unfinished Chinese civil war (The Interpreter)
• National security and defence secretaries (The Island)