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
- Women’s Rights Must be Central to the Global Recovery. Here’s Why by Tea Trumbic and Norman Loayza
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Child Poverty and Mobility in Indonesia by The Fiscal Policy Agency and UNICEF Indonesia
- Engendering the Recovery: Budgeting with Women in Mind by Antoinette Sayeh, Jiro Honda, Carolina Renteria, Vincent Tang
- Labor Migration through the Eyes of a Child by UNICEF
- Leveraging Digital Technologies for Social Inclusion by the UN-DESA
- Global Progress Report on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Health-care Facilities by UNICEF
- The Impact of Socioeconomic Status on the Clinical Outcomes of COVID-19; a Retrospective Cohort Study by Christine Little, Mathilda Alsen, Joshua Barlow, Leonard Naymagon, Douglas Tremblay, Eric Genden, Samuel Trosman, Laura Iavicoli & Maaike van Gerwen
- Updated Estimates of the Impact of COVID-19 on Global Poverty: Looking back at 2020 and the Outlook for 2021 by The World Bank Blogs
- A Tale of Two Paradoxes in Response to COVID-19’: Public Health System and Socio-economic Implications of the Pandemic in South Africa and Zimbabwe by Bellita Banda Chitsamatanga & Wayne Malinga
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Implications for Labour
- COVID-19: The Costly Setback in Latin American Women’s Progress by the World Bank
- Feminist Economic Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic by Naila Kabeer, Shahra Razavi & Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
- Empowering the Poorest Countries Towards a Resilient Recovery by The World Bank
- The Role of Digital Labour Platforms in Transforming the World of Work by the ILO
- Home-based Workers in the World: A Statistical Profile by Florence Bonnet, Françoise Carré, Martha Chen and Joann Vanek
- Recent Labor Market Performance in Vietnam through a Gender Lens by Gaelle Pierre, the World Bank.
- The Early Labor Market Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries: Evidence from High-Frequency Phone Surveys by The World Bank
- ILO Highlights Plight of Millions of Home-based Workers by Arab News
- Unexpected Learnings from a Covid-19 Relief Program for the Cameroonian Labor Market by UNDP
- Part 1/2 What Should Be an Acceptable Employment Rate for India? and
- Part 2/2 How Can Employment Be Put at the Centre of the Indian Policymaker’s Agenda? by Santosh Mehrotra and Mahesh Vyas
- Implications of COVID-19 Labour Market Shocks for Inequality in Financial Wellbeing by Ferdi Botha John P. de New, Sonja C. de New, David C. Ribar, Nicolás Salamanca
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Gender
- How Gender Parity can Make up Lost Ground after the COVID-19 Pandemic by Ruchi Bhowmik
- COVID-19 is reversing the Important Gains Made over the Last Decade for Women in the Workforce by Ashley Worley
- COVID-19 Widens the Gender Gap in Labor Force Participation by Simeon Djankov, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Marie Hyland and Eva (Yiwen) Zhang
- Women, Business and the Law 2021: Women´s Economic Empowerment is Critical to Resilient Recovery Efforts by Norman Loayza and Tea Trumbic
- The COVID-19 Pandemic Has Caused a Setback of Over a Decade in Labor Market Participation for Women in the Region by the New World Report
- Gendered Experiences of Software Engineers During the COVID-19 Crisis by Leticia S. Machado, Clara Caldeira, Marcelo Gattermann Perin and Cleidson R.B. de Souza
- Technical Note on Gender Norms by UNICEF
- Women Pay the Price of COVID-19 More than Men
- The Pandemic Doesn’t Have to Hurt Women Most by Elisa Martinuzzi
- COVID-19 Widens Gender Gap in Labor Force Participation in Some but not Other Advanced Economies by Simeon Djankov and Eva (Yiwen) Zhang
- Researching Gender Inequalities in Academic Labour during the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Avoiding Common Problems and Asking Different Questions by Maria do Mar Pereira
- Women Working on the Front Line by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
- Unemployment and the Gendered Economy in South Africa after Covid-19 by David Francis
- Gender in the Time of COVID-19: Evaluating National Leadership and COVID-19 Fatalities by Leah C. Windsor , Gina Yannitell Reinhardt, Alistair J. Windsor, Robert Ostergard,Susan Allen,Courtney Burns,Jarod Giger, Reed Wood
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Children, Youth and Education
- How the COVID-19 Pandemic has Scarred the World’s Children by the UNICEF
- COVID’s Lost Learning: 70 Million Children Face Reading Crisis by Al Jazeera
- Over 168 Million Children Miss Nearly a Year of Schooling, UNICEF Says by the UN News
- Covid ‘May Leave 12 Million Children Unable to Read’ by The Guardian
- It Is Time to Return to Learning by Rafael de Hoyos and Jaime Saavedra
- Two-Thirds of Poorer Countries Are Cutting Education Budgets Due to COVID-19 by the World Bank
- Six Million Children out of School in India Due to the Impact of COVID-19; Girls Most Affected by B K Chaturvedi
- Covid’s Impact on Global Education Inequality Revealed – In 8 Charts : Compiled from various sources by The National News
- Save Our Education Now: An Emergency COVID-19 Education Plan to Get the Poorest and Most Marginalised Children Safely Back to School and Learning by Hollie Warren; Oliver Fiala; Richard Watts
- The Virus that Shut Down the World: Education in Crisis by UN News
- Children Cannot Afford Another Year of School Disruption by UNICEF
- When the Great Equalizer Shuts Down: Schools, Peers, and Parents in Pandemic Times by Francesco Agostinelli, Matthias Doepke, Giuseppe Sorrenti & Fabrizio Zilibotti
- Averting a Lost COVID Generation by UNICEF
- Lessons for Education from PISA for Development During the Coronavirus Crisis by Andreas Schleicher, OECD
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Refugees and Migration
- COVID-19 and Migration for Work in South Asia: Private Sector Responsibilities by the UNICEF
- COVID-19 Pandemic Worsening Gender Inequalities for Refugee Women and Girls by the UNHCR
- COVID-19 and the Demand for Labor and Skills in Europe: Early Evidence and Implications for Migration Policy by Terence Hogarth
- COVID-19’s Impacts on Climate-Related Migration Policies and Outcomes by Kayly Ober , Miriam Ernest and Jacqueline Kessler
- Quarterly Mixed Migration Update, Asia, Quarter 4, 2020 by the Mixed Migration Centre
- Protecting Migrant Workers in the Gulf: Don’t Build Back Better Over a Poor Foundation by Vani Saraswathi
- Refugees Receive COVID-19 Vaccinations in Jordan by UNHCR
- Migration Data Portal : Migration Data Relevant for the COVID-19 Pandemic
- In Migrant Worker Hub, Thailand Sees a Rare Coronavirus Surge by Sebastian Strangio
- COVID-19 Crisis Puts Migration and Progress on Integration at Risk by OECD
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Migrants by International Organization for Migration
- Who are the Women on the Move? A Portrait of Female Migrant Workers by ILO
- ‘Poverty Pandemic’ as Refugees Remain Excluded from COVID-19 Vaccine Plans by Emina Osmandzikovic
- What We Got Wrong About COVID-19 and Refugees by Jan Egeland, Secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council
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