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UN at 75: slow death or new direction?
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Towards UN LDC5: Recovery from COVID-19
Seminar
Funda Ustek-Spilda on fair work in the gig economy after COVID-19
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The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918–20: An interpretative survey in the time of COVID-19The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-20—commonly known as the Spanish flu—infected over a quarter of the world’s population and killed over 50 million people...
Spanish flu COVID-19 pandemic
Blog
Decent work and COVID-19 – it’s time for a just deal for all workers
Seven months into the unprecedented crisis of COVID-19, we already see significant effects on employment and earnings worldwide...
Decent Work Informality COVID-19Blog
Graduating in the shadow of the pandemic: The impact of COVID-19 on the transition of young Mozambicans from school to workSince appearing in 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has plunged the world into an unprecedented health and socioeconomic crisis...
school -to-work transitions Labour market EducationWorking Paper
Data, global development, and COVID-19: Lessons and consequencesThe COVID-19 pandemic holds at least seven lessons for the relationship between data-driven decision making, the use of artificial intelligence, and development...
data science data artificial intelligenceBlog
Do we have the right balance?: Aggregate population health and COVID-19
The world has been shaken by unprecedented efforts in the name of public health. But, efforts to arrest COVID-19 were not initially formulated with a comprehensive view of the public health in mind ...
COVID-19 Global health Aggregate population healthBlog
Five ways coronavirus is deepening global inequality Before coronavirus, inequality was already increasing in many parts of the developing world . But the pandemic is going to greatly heighten existing economic and social inequalities...
COVID-19 Inequality Decent WorkBackground Note
COVID-19 and employment: Insights from the sub-Saharan African experienceIntroduction The COVID-19 pandemic poses important risks for people’s health and economic wellbeing...
COVID-19 Employment informal poorBlog
Beyond lockdown: rebuilding the social contractContinued lockdown measures are straining the social contract between citizens and governments...
social unrest lockdown measures lockdown policiesBlog
The labour market implications of COVID-19 for Bangladeshi womenWith the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Bangladesh on 8 March 2020 and the initiation of a lockdown on 26 March 2020, 1 the livelihoods of a significant number of people were under serious threat — with women most likely to suffer the wors...
COVID-19 Gender inequality Labour force participationBlog
The debate around intellectual property rights and the COVID-19 vaccine
The most effective way to fight COVID-19 is by vaccinating against infection. But once the vaccine is developed, how can it be distributed across the world’s population?...
COVID-19 COVID-19 vaccine intellectual property rightsBlog
Is COVID-19 really an exogenous shock?"We cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." – Albert Einstein Economists invariably divide shocks into two types: endogenous and exogenous...
COVID-19 Economics shocks