Mental health crisis a threat to the Philippine economy
The coronavirus sent Paul Dalmacio, 40, into a busy intensive care unit in Manila for 10 days. The severity of his case would keep him in the hospital for two months. …
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Nutri-Gardening Initiative Promises Better Nutrition for Tribal Women Farmers
Khunta, one of the remote blocks of North Odisha’s Mayurbhanj, is yet to overcome malnutrition. For years, rain-fed agriculture and collection of forest produce constituted a major source of livelihood …
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Rainbow Trout Aquaculture in Nepal: Promise Amid Shocks
The 2015 Gorkha earthquake was a singular natural disaster that has defined Nepal’s economic development in the latter half of the 2010s. Hit particularly hard by the earthquake was the …
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South Korea’s Vision for a More Inclusive Pandemic Recovery
The rapid spread of COVID-19 across the globe has left worsening inequality in its wake. The gap between the “haves” and the “have nots,” which was widening before the pandemic, has further …
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Japan’s Struggling Single Mothers Expose the Flaws of Womenomics
Under Japan’s women’s advancement strategy, dubbed “womenomics,” a record number of women joined the labor force to help fill the country’s chronic labor shortage and resuscitate the sluggish economy. Amid …
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China’s economy grew in 2020, but only the rich are “revenge spending”
China today reported 2.3% growth in GDP last year, making it the first and probably only major country whose economy expanded in 2020. But a marked decrease in consumer spending, …
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‘Economically feasible’: New study maps how China could shift from coal to green energy in the 2020s
China must electrify as much of its economy as possible and generate almost all its electricity from zero carbon sources to meet its 2060 carbon neutrality goal, according to joint …
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Homemaker’s Work in Landmark Judgment, Awards Additional Rs. 11.2 Lakhs
This week, India’s Supreme Court delivered a crucial judgment that will progressively inform our notions of homemakers’ work, sacrifice, and subsequently the economic value of both. In an insurance dispute …
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Returning ‘heroes’: Filipino migrant workers met with a devastated economy
Filipino healthcare workers have found themselves thrust to the frontlines of the pandemic to care for the most vulnerable across the globe. The Philippines is one of the world’s leading …
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China to overtake US as largest global economy by 2028: report
The coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout will help China rise past the US to become the world’s largest economy, a new report shows. Beijing is now expected to overtake the …
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