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Tag: pandemic

Enlightenment goes viral

17/12/202117/12/2021 - Leave a Comment

I am not a believer in conspiracy theories, but for one moment let’s imagine there exists a shadowy secret society bent on world betterment… The Society had been increasingly worried. …

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China alert to global economic risks from Omicron, but ‘financial turmoil’ of early pandemic unlikely

03/12/202109/01/2022 - Leave a Comment

he new Omicron variant adds more uncertainty to the global economic recovery and China will closely follow its potential impact on trade and international supply chains, the Ministry of Commerce …

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Lord Bethell and Matt Hancock to hand over private messages

23/09/2021 - Leave a Comment

For months, Government has been refusing to hand over evidence in our challenge concerning Abingdon Health, the testing company awarded £85 million worth of contracts without competition. Yesterday we took …

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How corruption has added to Latin America’s COVID death toll

26/08/2021 - Leave a Comment

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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Why Sri Lanka’s economy is in crisis

04/08/202104/08/2021 - Leave a Comment

Colombo avoids a debt default, but it’s fast running out of money to pay for imports. Will the IMF provide a bailout? Sri Lanka’s finances are in a precarious state, …

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How migrants in the Gulf are fighting discrimination during the pandemic

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Like millions before him, Manoj migrated from the southwestern Indian state of Kerala to the Gulf in search of work in 2019. He found a job at a construction company …

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Brazilians thrown back into poverty as COVID aid dries up

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Tatiana Araujo de Sirqueira, a 33-year-old single mother of six, and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro are almost neighbours, but they inhabit different universes. Sirqueira lives by a landfill less than …

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Covid economics: the European variants

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An injection of cash or lockdown and fear?  Dirk Ehnts and Michael Paetz look at the options. Last summer, we were mildly optimistic about Europe’s economic response to Covid. It …

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European recovery sidelines the young generation

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Despite being the most affected group by the coronavirus-induced crisis, young Europeans feel increasingly left out from the plans for post-pandemic recovery. Experts call for targeted measures to support them …

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The Lonely Century

12/02/2021 - Leave a Comment

From the publisher: Loneliness has become the defining condition of the twenty-first century. It is damaging our health, our wealth, and our happiness and even threatening our democracy. Never has …

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