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Electoral politics and Mexico’s COVID-19 vaccine roll-outGovernment responsiveness is an integral feature of representative democracy. Its importance could be amplified in times of crisis, especially if citizens cannot rely on market actors for help...
COVID-19 COVID-19 policy response COVID-19 vaccineWorking Paper
Pandemic precarity and the complicated case of Maharashtra: Interrogating state capacity and its fault linesThe state of Maharashtra and the city of Mumbai have been referred to as the epidemic epicentre of India since the time of the plague of 1896 and influenza epidemic of 1918...
Pandemic Migrants COVID-19 vaccineSeminar
Jayati Ghosh on ending the COVID-19 vaccine apartheid
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No one is safe until everyone is safe: Finland must advance global COVID-19 solidarity
COVID-19 vaccine United Nations Finland Blog
The world needs a people’s vaccineThe world needs a people’s vaccine for COVID-19 — one provided universally, and accessible to the entire world population. A patent-protected vaccine could ultimately exclude many people from being vaccinated and protected...
COVID-19 COVID-19 vaccineBlog
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 rightsBackground Note
Making a COVID-19 vaccine globally available once developed: Decoupling production of the vaccine from its developmentDevelopment and production of a COVID-19 vaccine There is a high risk that the intellectual property (IP) rights of a COVID-19 vaccine will effectively block people in many poorer countries from accessing it...
COVID-19 COVID-19 vaccine Intellectual property