Tuesday 4 August: COVID-19 Policy Digest

Tuesday 4 August: COVID-19 Policy Digest

Nepal

• Why the Nepal Army wants to become an investment promoter (Record Nepal)
• Nepal ruling party pulls back from split (again) (Nepali Times)
• Where are the Nepal-India relations heading (The Kathmandu Post)
• As Nepal and China celebrate 65 years of friendship, a great deal of work lie ahead of us (My Republica)
• Nepali overseas workers who remain behind (Nepali Times)
• Growing arrears show bad governance (The Kathmandu Post)
• India’s continuing role in Nepal’s economic development (Observer Research Foundation)

Economy        

• The pandemic’s economic impact will be deep, but proactive policies will help (Asian Development Blog)
• How can digital financial services help a world coping with COVID-19? (World Bank Blogs)
• Tracking COVID-19’s devastating toll on Asia’s remittances (Asian Development Blogs)
• How to prevent the looming sovereign-debt crisis (Project Syndicate)
• Exploring the feasibility of Medium-Term Revenue Strategies in developing countries (Centre for Global Development)

 

Society

• The power of choice — ensuring access to family planning in the COVID-19 era (Devex)
• The international humanitarian response to COVID-19 (Dev Policy)

 

Law

• Reading the draft Environment Impact Assessment norms, and finding the red flags (The Indian Express)

 

Democracy

• Sri Lanka headed for elections: Democracy in Distress (MP-IDSA)
• In Russia’s new protest cycle, a demand for a democratic state emerges (Open Democracy)

 

Security

• A year on, Article 370 and Kashmir mythmaking (The Hindu)
• Economic costs of national security (My Republica)
• What do Indian parliamentary reports tell us about infrastructure buildup on the China border? (The Diplomat)
• Myanmar’s menacing frontier (Himal South-Asia)

 

Other

• India and the geopolitics of TikTok (The Indian Express)