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Age composition of population and Covid-19
by Kunal Sen, Parantap Basu April 2020

The novel Covid-19 is affecting the advanced countries in the Western Hemisphere disproportionately more than developing countries. In this post, Basu...

  • COVID-19
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COVID-19 and socioeconomic impact in Asia

Several countries have enacted lockdown measures in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic to protect their health systems and reduce the number of mortalities. One of the most extreme national lockdown measures has been taken by the government of India...

  • COVID-19
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How do we live with corona?
by Ghassan Baliki, Tilman Brück, Neil T. N. Ferguson, Patricia Justino, Wolfgang Stojetz April 2020

People who live through extreme events are, often deeply, altered by the experiences they have. Even when those experiences take place predominantly...

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COVID-19 and socioeconomic impact in Africa

What has the government of South Africa done with respect to COVID-19 measures of mitigation and suppression? The first COVID-19 positive case was confirmed on 5 March 2020. Just ten days later, South Africa had 61 positive cases and President...

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  • Government action
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How Africa can fight the pandemic
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by Arkebe Oqubay April 2020

The response to Africa’s COVID-19 plight must be swift and at scale rather than too little, too late. In a world short of progressive global...

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  • Pandemic
  • Economic Policy and Good Governance
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Migrant workers in the Covid-19 pandemic
by Eva-Maria Egger, Kunal Sen April 2020

Millions of migrant workers around the world provide valuable income for their families and contribute more broadly to the economies of both their...

  • COVID-19
  • Migration
  • Global health
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The five criteria low income countries must have in place for lockdowns to work
by Sam Jones, Eva-Maria Egger, Ricardo Santos April 2020

As the COVID-19 virus has spread across the globe, developing countries are starting to enact many of the same policies used in China, Europe, and...

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  • Mozambique
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COVID-19 and socioeconomic impact in Africa

The COVID-19 pandemic has now spread to over 180 countries, including several countries in sub-Saharan Africa. 1 Kenya reported its first COVID-19 case on 13 March 2020. By 31 March the number of confirmed cases had risen to 59, with over 70 per cent...

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An unprecedented threat requires unprecedented leadership: What is needed from global powers
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by Arkebe Oqubay April 2020

COVID-19 is the greatest global threat the world has faced since the Second World War. It is not the deadliest or most infectious disease recorded...

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  • Leadership charasteristics
  • Global cooperation
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COVID-19: mortality, future years lost, and demographic structure

COVID-19 causes extremely high mortality among the old. This motivates a comparison of the losses of future lifetime years and future lifetime years of work ensuing from a hypothetical 25,000 excess deaths in Italy, whose affluent population is one of...

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Artificial intelligence vs. COVID-19 in developing countries: Priorities and trade-offs
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by Wim Naudé May 2020

The rush to harness Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the fight against the pandemic may be an opportunity for developing countries to accelerate the...

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Artificial intelligence versus COVID-19 in developing countries

In this note, I will refer to current efforts to harness artificial intelligence (AI) in the push back against COVID-19, note its promises, limitations, potential pitfalls, and identify priorities for developing countries. Artificial Intelligence is...

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When COVID-19 comes to Africa
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by Arkebe Oqubay March 2020

There is no telling how long it will take to bring the COVID-19 coronavirus under control, or how many people will be affected. But African...

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Will COVID-19 lead to half a billion more people living in poverty in developing countries?
by Andy Sumner, Christopher Hoy, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez April 2020

The impacts of COVID-19 in developing countries are starting to be felt. The Economist went as far as to call it the ‘next calamity’ , noting how...

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Estimates of the impact of COVID-19 on global poverty

In this paper we make estimates of the potential short-term economic impact of COVID-19 on global monetary poverty through contractions in per capita household income or consumption. Our estimates are based on three scenarios: low, medium, and high...

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To die from hunger or the virus: An all too real dilemma for the poor in India (and elsewhere)
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by Martha Chen April 2020

On March 24, in a speech to the nation, Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, announced a 21-day lockdown. With only four hours’ notice, 1.3 billion...

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