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Tag - COVID-19

IMF hosting a seminar on averting a COVID-19 debt trap in April 2021 (International Monetary Fund-Flickr)

The spiralling debt crisis, and what to do about it

by Masood Ahmed and Niki Baroy
April 22, 2022

How Vanuatu’s COVID-19 policies can catapult economic recovery through the private sector in 2022

by Elizabeth Pechan, Howard Aru and Tekon Timothy Tumukon
March 29, 2022
Girls in ICT Mauritius (D.Woldu-ITU-Flickr)

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, COVID-19 and women

by Eun Mee Kim and Niki Baroy
March 8, 2022
Photograph of a Philippines health practitioner giving a COVID-19 vaccination. Both people are masked.

Effective vaccine communication is key to future pandemic preparedness

by Ananta Seth and Tikki Pangestu
March 2, 2022
Local government budget delays in Nepal (Narmin)

Local government budget delays are impeding Nepal’s COVID-19 response

by Amol Acharya, Prakriti Nepal and Parshuram Upadhyay
February 28, 2022
Village cadres at a COVID checkpoint in Nancun village, Hebei Province, China, January 2020

China’s COVID-19 response: any scope for local policy discretion?

by Adam Tyson, Hong Gao and Guangxin Cheng
February 23, 2022
Melbourne Airport in January 2022 (Atiq Rahman)

Life of an international aid worker in a COVID-19 world

by Atiq Rahman
February 10, 2022
Vaccination drive in Waromo Village, West Sepik (PNG Department of Health-Facebook)

Why many Papua New Guineans reject the COVID-19 vaccine, and why I changed my mind

by Anslem Manoka
February 8, 2022
Timote Ake, who lost his house and all his belongings, on Mango, Ha'apai (Piokalafi Fakaosi)

Tonga’s volcanic eruption: impacts on seasonal workers in Australia and New Zealand

by Rochelle Bailey, Telusa Tu'i'onetoa, Gemma Malungahu and Charlotte Bedford
February 1, 2022
Volunteers from Timor-Leste's 'Clean Seas Movement' (Movimento Tasi Mos) help distribute supplies in the aftermath of the April flood

Timor-Leste in 2021: in troubled times a nation comes of age

by Michael Rose
January 28, 2022
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