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Viewpoint: My Plan B for All the Big Corporate Bailout Proposals
At the heart of my Plan B bailout proposal is an intriguing and relatively new legal structure called a “benefit corporation.”
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- Coronavirus
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- North America
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Research During a Pandemic: Leaner and Faster Poverty Measurement in the Time of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is pushing research projects around the world to move from face-to-face data collection to shorter, phone-based methods. But as Elliott Collins and John Branch at Innovations for Poverty Action point out, these changes can present challenges for researchers studying how the pandemic affects poor and vulnerable households. They explore some strategies for measuring poverty under these constraints, based on IPA’s experience with lean, remote research.
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- Coronavirus, Impact Assessment
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- COVID-19, data, poverty alleviation, research
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Viewpoint: Can Big Data Fight a Pandemic?
The COVID-19 crisis has intensified the debate over big data and privacy. Governments are pulling together data from public and private systems in order to predict and counter the spread of COVID-19. But setting aside privacy protections in a time of crisis could lead to new, permanent norms. We asked Yale SOM’s K. Sudhir about the role of India’s nationwide identity system, Aadhaar, and the use of big data around the world.
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- Coronavirus, Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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Press Release: COVID-19: Data for a Resilient Africa
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD) have unveiled an initiative to strengthen Africa’s data ecosystems in the face of COVID-19.
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- Coronavirus, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- data, global development
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Can COVID-19 Catalyze Vietnam’s Digital Transformation?
Many of Vietnam’s swift and effective public health responses have been enabled by information technology.
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- Coronavirus, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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A New Website Is Helping Nigerians Check If They Have Coronavirus
Created through a partnership between the Wellbeing Foundation and PocketPatientMD, the site will determine if a person needs to visit a coronavirus test center based on a series of questions.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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BlackRock Unveils Impact Fund With COVID-19 Focus
The portfolio focuses on a broad spread of themes including access to quality education and affordable housing, and developing healthcare innovation to help with societal challenges such as the current Covid-19 pandemic which has caused over 130,000 deaths worldwide at the time of writing.
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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Zimbabwe Is on Lockdown, but Money-Changers Are Still Busy
A chronic shortage of Zimbabwean dollar notes and US dollars keeps money-changing services in high demand.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa