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
- 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
- Comprehensive Study on the Impact of COVID-19 on the Least Developed Country Category by UN-DESA
- Women’s Rights Must be Central to the Global Recovery. Here’s Why by Tea Trumbic and Norman Loayza
- How Multinationals Can Advance Gender Equality in Developing Countries by UNCTAD
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Implications for Labour
- 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
- COVID-19 and Female Labor in the MENA Region by Valentine M. Moghadam
- COVID Crisis to Push Global Unemployment Over 200 Million Mark in 2022 by the UN News
- Widespread Informality Likely to Slow Recovery from COVID-19 in Developing Economies by The World Bank
- Slow Jobs Recovery and Increased Inequality Risk Long-term COVID-19 Scarring by the ILO
- World Bank Helps Bangladesh Create Better Jobs And Ensure Resilient Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic by The World Bank
- Short-term Cap on Migrant Labor Affects Remittances by Cai Ordinario
- Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19 in Kenya by the World Bank
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Gender
- 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
- Gender, Race and Parenthood Impact Academic Productivity During the COVID-19 Pandemic: From Survey to Action by Fernanda Staniscuaski et al.
- World Leaders Must Put Women at Centre of COVID-19 Recovery by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
- Has the Pandemic Revealed the Gendered Fault-lines in India’s Labour Markets? by Mitali Nikore and Poorva Prabhu
- To Keep Women in the Workforce, Men Need to Do More at Home by Daniel L. Carlson, Richard J. Petts, Joanna Pepin
- Class Notes: COVID-19 and Women’s Labor, the Care Economy, and More by Ariel Gelrud Shiro and Richard V. Reeves
- Why We Need Gender-Responsive Central Banking by Anita Bhatia
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Children, Youth and Education
- 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
- Covid-19 Pandemic Fueling Child Labor by Human Rights Watch
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Girls’ Education in Low-Income Countries by Veda Jain-Allington
- The Pandemic is Making a Vicious Cycle Even Worse for Low-Income Students by Anneken Tappe
- COVID-19 Increases Vulnerabilities Among Children, says Nobel laureate by Ahmad Adil
- Reimagining Girls’ Education by the World Bank
- Sub-Saharan Africa: Growing up in Crisis in a World of Opportunities: The lasting Impact of Covid-19 on Children by UNICEF
- Africa’s Children Need to Get Back to School to Avoid ‘Lost Generation’ by By Emeline Wuilbercq
- How COVID-19 has left India’s Education Sector in Tatters by Akhel Mathew
- How the COVID-19 Pandemic has Scarred the World’s Children by the UNICEF
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Refugees and Migration
- Enhancing Effective Management of Labour Migration in a COVID-19 Environment
- 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
- How COVID-19 Has Affected International Labour Migration – and the Path to Enduring Reintegration by Maria A. Villalba
- Myanmar Migrants Struggle as Second Wave of Covid-19 Hits Thailand by Myanmar Now
- UNHCR Calls for Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccines for Refugees by UNHCR
- How Could Migrant Workers Contribute to Cambodia’s Future Economy? by Sim Vireak
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Daily-wage Work and the Refugee Households that Rely on it in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq by UNHCR
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