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What natural disasters cost the global economy in 2020

29/12/202001/01/2021 - Leave a Comment

Covid-19 is clearly the crisis that defined 2020, but millions of people were forced to grapple with natural disasters alongside the pandemic. A Biblical deluge of record-breaking Atlantic hurricanes, devastating …

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Colonial economics

17/12/2020 - Leave a Comment

Post pandemic, which issues need to be added and reincorporated into the development economics curriculum? Kevin Deane asks. There is a strong argument that Covid  is not an external shock …

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A quiet crisis: As the economy fractures, violence soars for Afghan women

16/12/202018/12/2020 - Leave a Comment

Fatima lay in bed at the internal medicine ward at the bustling Mirwais Hospital in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar – a black scarf draped over her head and …

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Ecuador’s new loan program: a tale of two IMFs

15/10/202016/10/2020 - Leave a Comment

In her speech opening this year’s Annual World Meetings, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned of the dangers of an uneven recovery and increasing inequality and talked of the need for …

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The debt crisis looming for poor countries

08/10/202009/10/2020 - Leave a Comment

A growing number of poor countries, some already in humanitarian crisis, will soon have to choose between servicing their lenders or helping their most vulnerable citizens, as the World Bank …

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In the absence of the state, people are leading Beirut’s recovery

11/09/202018/09/2020 - Leave a Comment

Recent events in Lebanon tell a story of interwoven crises, culminating in the explosion in Beirut on 4 August. To overcome the crisis in the long-term, recovery efforts must be …

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Local groups step up to lead Beirut blast response

18/08/202021/08/2020 - Leave a Comment

While attention has focused on promises of international aid from a France-led donor conference and a UN appeal, much of the initial help in the two weeks since a massive explosion …

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