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Viewpoint: COVID-19 Could Deliver Positive Changes to Emerging Markets
Emerging markets (EM) are at a crossroads. The impact of COVID-19 aggravates pre-existing challenges. But it also enables those EM economies that respond effectively to create better conditions for the future.
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- Coronavirus
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- accelerators
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Viewpoint: How to Save Vital Remittances to the Developing World
The remittance safety net is under threat from job losses in sectors heavily dependent on migrant labor, and any proposal that the G20 nations maintain remittance flows would probably meet with derisive laughter; it would be tantamount to demanding that foreign countries bankroll the developing world’s non-existent safety nets. So the question is, what can be done?
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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- employment, remittances
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Viewpoint: The Great Reset After COVID-19 Must Put People First
Ventilators, masks and other personal protective equipment are urgently needed, but alongside these efforts, deep structural reforms predicated on putting “people and the planet” at centre stage and supported by social movements are the necessary building blocks for transformation.
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- Coronavirus
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Kenyans Embrace E-Gifting as COVID-19 Curtails Gatherings
As Kenya continues its fight against COVID-19, Kenyans have been forced to change their lifestyles in one way or another.
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- Coronavirus
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- e-commerce
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1 Billion People Live in Informal Settlements Worldwide: Here are Seven Key Challenges They’re Facing During COVID-19
“Stay at home” orders are part of life under COVID-19, but they're based on the assumption that one’s home provides protection against contracting and spreading the virus. As Margaret Nakunza at Intellecap points out, this isn’t always the case – at least not for the approximately 1 billion people living in informal settlements. She explores the most critical challenges facing these communities during the pandemic, and what the development sector can do to support them.
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- Coronavirus
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Report: Digital Solutions Key in Boosting Uganda’s COVID-19 Health Response, Aiding Faster Economic Recovery
With the economic impact of COVID-19, locusts and floods, the report warns that more than one million Ugandans could fall into poverty due to economic hardship and a lack of alternative means of survival.
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- Coronavirus, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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COVID-19 May Just Be the Unintended Booster Shot Financial Inclusion Needed
Giving every woman a bank account allows government benefits to reach citizens directly and instantly.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
- Region
- South Asia
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Viewpoint: Turning the Tide in Development — an Inclusive Response to COVID-19
As research professor Cynthia Enloe has said of this pandemic: “We aren’t all in this together. We’re all on the same rough seas together, but we’re in very different boats.”
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- Coronavirus, Health Care