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Preparing Community Health Workers to Deploy the COVID-19 Vaccine: Five Lessons on Digital Training Learned From the Ebola Crisis
Though COVID-19 deaths continue to rise around the globe, growing access to vaccines provides a ray of hope. As Monica Amponsah, Bobbi Gray and Gigi Gatti at Grameen Foundation explain, community health workers can play a key role in bringing the vaccine to vulnerable communities in the developing world. They discuss the digital solutions Grameen Foundation developed to help community health workers support the Ebola vaccine trials in Sierra Leone, and share five lessons for leveraging mobile tools to help these workers deploy COVID-19 vaccinations.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Technology
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Analysis: India’s Agrarian Catastrophe and Farmers’ Rebellion
The origins of the farmer protests are rooted in the economic liberalisation of the 1990s, which pushed the agriculture sector into crisis, causing an epidemic of farmer suicides.
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- Agriculture
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- Asia Pacific
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Analysis: Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Effectively Ended in India?
When India went into lockdown in March 2020, the fear of Covid-19 swiftly spreading through a densely populated country of 1.3 billion people was dangerously real.
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- Coronavirus
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- Asia Pacific
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- coronavirus, crisis, employment, migrants, social impact
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Viewpoint: Impact of COVID19 on International Development Assistance System
The COVID-19 pandemic crisis has hit many developing countries hard and threatens the realisation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Impact Assessment
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Impact Investing in COVID-19 Times: A Three-Step Mission
Despite the economic crunch, the joint pursuit of profit and purpose may have a very bright future. But first, we need to return to basics.
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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How Can We Protect the World’s Poor From Coronavirus and Its Economic Effects?
G20 leaders urgently need to reconvene to agree on an enhanced and more strongly coordinated global response to the COVID-19 crisis. Although lockdowns are being eased in many places, the daily number of new COVID-19 cases worldwide recently reached its highest level yet, while the pandemic’s devastating economic toll continues to mount as new epicenters arise in the emerging and developing world.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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Preventing an Emerging-Market Meltdown
Emerging markets today account for more than two-fifths of global GDP measured at market exchange rates, and nearly three-fifths after adjusting for differences in purchasing power. If these economies crash, then rich-country citizens will also be the victims of an economic catastrophe long foretold and clearly avoidable.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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- Europe & Eurasia
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BRAC Survey Finds 95 Percent in Bangladesh Suffer Losses in Income Due to COVID-19
Brac in a latest survey said that the lockdown and social distancing measures announced to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has forced 95% people across the country to suffer a loss in their income.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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- Asia Pacific
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