Profit and profiteroles
South Africa’s rulers are so detached from their electorate they don’t even let them eat cake. Lebohang Liepollo Pheko explains. Every year on the weekend closest to January 8th, the …
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Did social closeness beat Covid?
How could mutual respect rein in Covid deaths? Irene van Staveren offers an explanation. Why were the Covid-19 death rates in populist countries such as the US, Brazil and India, …
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BoE chief economist hints at rate rise but new Covid variant fuels doubts
The Bank of England appears to have move a step closer towards increasing the cost of borrowing next month after its new chief economist, Huw Pill, said the UK’s recovery from …
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How corruption has added to Latin America’s COVID death toll
After coming down with COVID-19 in December, Vinicio Sánchez visited three health centres in a single day. At the first, a clinic in the south of Ecuadorian capital, Quito, he …
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Zoom: the bigger picture
Should out of office be permanently on and other post-lockdown questions? Nick Skelton explains why digital isn’t the only pointer for the future. I’m an IT person by background but …
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Don’t count on it
Jonathan Aldred explains how there is more to equations than numbers when it comes to Covid policy. According to Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, when the pandemic hit …
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Global South countries come together
The Summit brings together Global South governments, political leaders, healthcare workers and vaccine manufacturers from more than twenty countries and follows criticism of the G7’s plan by U.N. aid chief …
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Everyone Is Funding Oxygen. This Is a Problem.
As the second wave of COVID-19 rages through the country, media and global donor attention is focused on the supply of oxygen in its various forms – even as the …
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Additional 230 Million Indians Fell Below Poverty Line Due to the Pandemic
At a time when the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is ravaging India, a report prepared by the Centre for Sustainable Employment at Azim Premji University (APU) has highlighted …
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International cooperation and the era of digital currency growth
The COVID-19 pandemic and consequent economic crisis have indelibly altered our daily lives. One of the profound changes has been the acceleration in the shift towards digital payments, as customers avoided cash …
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