This section provides a curated list of opinion pieces on Covid-19, policies and programmes to deal with it, and the implications for different groups in LIC’s. The materials will be updated weekly.
Policies and Programmes
- UNCTAD Issues Amber Warning on Building Back Better by UNCTAD
- Supporting the Development of Today’s Young People by the World Bank Blogs
- Horizontal and Vertical Integration are More Necessary Than Ever for COVID-19 Recovery and SDG Implementation by UN-DESA
- Duflo Offers Pathways to a Better Future, Lessons from COVID-19 Crisis by UNCTAD
- A Year into the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Rounds 4 and 5 of Uganda High-Frequency Phone Survey Tell by Aziz Atamanov, Frédéric Cochinard, John Ilukor and Giulia Ponzini
- From Crisis to Opportunity: Transforming Education in Europe and Central Asia after COVID-19 by The World Bank Blogs
- Comprehensive Study on the Impact of COVID-19 on the Least Developed Country Category by UN-DESA
- Helping Cross-Border Women Traders Navigate COVID-19 Crisis by UNCTAD
- How to Provide Online Learning and Skills Training to Youth in Low-Bandwidth Areas by Namita Datta, Kasia Jakimowicz and Sunamika Singh
- COVID-19 Vaccines: Saving Lives and Rebuilding Better by The World Bank Blogs
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Implications for Labour
- Working for The Most Vulnerable People: Jobs and Economic Transformation in the Face of COVID-19 by the World Bank
- Reversing the Adverse Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo by Yele Batana, Alexandra Jarotschkin and Mervy Ever Viboudoulou Vilpoux
- These Types of Workers were Most Impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic by Michael Weber and David Newhouse
- Slow Jobs Recovery and Increased Inequality Risk Long-term COVID-19 Scarring by the ILO
- The Future of Care Work Post-COVID-19 by Observer Research Foundation
- Recovery from the COVID-19 Recession: Uneven Effects among Young Workers? by Pinka Chatterji and Yue Li
- Economic Crisis Pushes Many Workers into the Informal Labor Market in Latin America and the Caribbean by the World Bank
- The Pandemic Has Damaged Youth Employment: Here’s How We Can Help by World Economic Forum
- Slow Jobs Recovery and Increased Inequality Risk Long-term COVID-19 Scarring by the ILO
- Here’s What We Know About COVID’s Impact on India’s Workers – and What We Can Do About It by Rosa Abraham and Amit Basole
- Economic Crisis Pushes Many Workers into the Informal Labor Market in Latin America and the Caribbean by the World Bank
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Gender
- Opening a Global Conversation About the Gender Digital Divide by Kate Gromova, Reyn Anderson and Garima Gupta
- COVID-19 Threatens Four ‘Lost Decades’ for Gender Equality by UNCTAD
- The Pandemic has Hurt Women’s Health. This is Why That’s Bad for Everyone by World Economic Forum
- The Gender Penalties of the Pandemic: The Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on Women’s Labor Market Outcomes by the UNDP
- How The Pandemic Set Back Women’s Progress in the Global Workforce by Emily Rauhala, Anu Narayanswamy, Youjin Shin and Júlia Ledur
- Gender Equality Post COVID-19 by UN Women
- Latest IMF gender research: Making the Economy Work for women, or Women work for the economy?
- Why Covid-19 Became a Women’s Problem in Urban India by Mitali Nikore
- Women Did Three Times as Much Child Care as Men During Pandemic by Shera Avi-Yonah
- COVID-19 Accelerates Existing Decline in Fertility Rates by Sara Matthews
- UN Gender Equality Forum Will Focus on Labor, Exclusion by DW News
- Gender Gaps within Couples: Evidence of Time Re-allocations during COVID-19 in Argentina by Victoria Costoya, Lucía Echeverría, María Edo, Ana Rocha and Agustina Thailinger
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Children, Youth and Education
- Five Lessons from Remote Learning during COVID-19 by the World Bank
- Ensuring Equal Access to Education in Future Crises: Findings of the New Remote Learning Readiness Index by UNICEF
- Why Lockdown and Distance Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic are Likely to Increase the Social Class Achievement Gap by Sébastien Goudeau, Camille Sanrey, Arnaud Stanczak, Antony Manstead and Céline Darnon
- Teachers and School Staff Play a Central Role in COVID-19 Outbreaks on Campus, Research Suggests by Denise-Marie Ordway
- Covid-19: The Indian Children Who Have Forgotten How to Read and Write by Divya Arya
- COVID-19 Lockdowns Reduce Children’s Probability to Return to School: Evidence from Nigeria by Sylvain Dessy, Horace Gninafon, Luca Tiberti and Marco Tiberti
- Humanitarian Action for Children 2021 – Madagascar by UNICEF
- Why We Must Tackle the Scourge of Child Labour by Bob Casey
- The Appalling Increase in Child Labor by Kailash Satyarthi
- Mission: Recovering Education in 2021 by the UNICEF
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Refugees and Migration
- Critical Gaps in Refugee Education: Two Thirds of Refugee Youth Might Never Get to Secondary School by the UNHCR
- Immigration and Natives’ Exposure to COVID-related Risks in the EU by Laurent Bossavie, Daniel Garrote Sanchez, Mattia Makovec and Çağlar Özden
- More Children Than Ever Before Live As Migrants or Refugees, Outside Their Birth Countries – UNICEF by UN News
- Enhancing Effective Management of Labour Migration in a COVID-19 Environment by the Guardian
- Magnifying Inequality for Forcibly Displaced Women: A Call for Action by Leila Hanafi and Thokozani Kadzamira
- We Need to Stop Talking About Gender Equality and Start Funding it Instead by Aya Chebbi
- Global Labour Migration Increases by Five Million by the ILO
- Labour Migration in India – One Year on and India Still Does Not Have a Comprehensive Policy in Place to Support the Informal Migrant Labor Population by Suresh Kumar
- Labor Market Access in Forced Displacement Contexts by Emily E. Arnold-Fernández, Neha Misra and Sarah Miller
- Pandemic Realities for Asia-Pacific’s 48 million International Migrants by the ILO
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