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Opinion Pieces

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 

  • 100 Weeks Into the Pandemic: The Importance of Keeping Schools Open and Investing in Learning Recovery Programs by Stefania Giannini, Robert Jenkins and Jaime Saavedra
  • COVID-19 Threatens Four ‘Lost Decades’ for Gender Equality by UNCTAD
  • How a Novel Financing Tool is Helping Bring the Private Sector into Difficult Markets by the World Bank Blogs
  • 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

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Implications for Labour  

  • Can Internet Access Lead to Improved Economic Outcomes? by Jonas Hjort and Camilla Sacchetto
  • Alarming Decline in Labour Productivity Growth in Arab States – But Policy Reforms Can Fuel Recovery by the ILO
  • ILO: Employment Impact of the Pandemic Worse than Expected by the ILO
  • Career Impact Bonds? Financing upskilling to fill the world’s vacancies by Sridhar Krishna
  • COVID-19 Has Made Life Even More Precarious for Migrant Workers by the ILO
  • Post COVID-19 Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Role for Coffee Companies? by Tendai Doreen Hwehwe, Henry Eric Magezi and Kouyo Elisabeth Keturah
  • Making of Shonar Bangla – How Bangladesh Transformed its Economy by Junaid Kamal Ahmad
  • 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

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Gender 

  • Overcoming Barriers to Women’s Work in the Philippines by Helle Buchhave, Nadia Belhaj and Hassine Belghith
  • Over 2 Million Moms Left the Labour Force in 2020 According to New Global Estimates by the ILO
  • COVID-19 Impacts and Gender Equality by Miriam Selva and Emily Janoch
  • Do Childcare Subsidies and Employment Services Increase Women’s Employment in Egypt? by the World Bank Blogs
  • Rural Women Need Gender Equality, Workplace Safety by the ILO
  • Household Dynamics and Female Labor Force Participation: Discussion Edition by Markus Goldstein
  • Unleashing Women and Girls’ Human Capital: A Game Changer for Africa by Hana Brixi, Laura Rawlings and Elizabeth Koechlein
  • Labor Market Exits and Entrances are Elevated: Who is Coming Back? by Lauren Bauer and Wendy Edelberg
  • The Key to Funding Gender Equality? Context and Collaboration by Mary Wandia
  • An Uneven Recovery: the Impact of COVID-19 on Latin America and the Caribbean by the World Bank
  • 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?

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Children, Youth and Education

  • TVET and the Future of Work: Tracing Outcomes of Graduates in Saudi Arabia by Ekaterina Pankratova, Nayib Rivera and Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad
  • Education Meets the Metaverse in Eastern Caribbean national Colleges by Diego Angel-Urdinola, Cynthia Marchioni and Jimmy Vainstein
  • How Do the World’s Leading Education Experts Recommend the Education Sector Should Respond to Covid-19? by Charlotte Watts, Jaime Saavedra and Robert Jenkins
  • Ensuring Learning Continuity During COVID-19-Related School Closures: Lessons From Remote Learning Experiences in Over 45 Countries by World Bank Blogs
  • Lessons for the Education Sector from the COVID-19 Pandemic by Harry A. Patrinos and Eduardo Velez Bustillo
  • Reversing The Pandemic’s Education Losses by Henrietta Fore and David Malpass
  • Learning Losses From COVID-19 Could Cost This Generation of Students Close to $17 Trillion in Lifetime Earnings by UNESCO
  • 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
  • The Appalling Increase in Child Labor by Kailash Satyarthi

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Refugees and Migration

  • 2021 Year in Review: Refugee, Migrant Numbers Rise, Despite Travel Curbs by UN News
  • Social Protection for Migrant Workers, Refugees and Their Families by the ILO
  • A Christmas Tale and 3 lessons on Migration by Ana I. Aguilera
  • 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

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