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Analysis: COVID Pushed 31 Million People Into Extreme Poverty
In an annual report that looks at the world’s progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, the Gates Foundation says that 31 million additional people have been pushed into extreme poverty.
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- Coronavirus, Technology
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- Global
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Building Back Boldly: How Decisive Government Action Can Support Entrepreneurship in a Post-COVID-19 Economy
COVID-19 caused a global economic contraction of 3.5% last year, inflicting particular damage on emerging economies and pushing approximately 120 million individuals back into extreme poverty. Consultants Kate Collins and Bar Pereg argue that disruption of this magnitude demands large-scale government investment – not only to address the pandemic's economic damage, but also to support the growth of innovative companies in an economy re-shaped by the crisis. They explore the impacts government interventions can have on entrepreneurship, and the importance of taking an ecosystem-wide approach.
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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Analysis: A Fiscal Tightrope: Comparing the COVID-19 Recovery of Advanced and Emerging Economies
The effects of COVID-19 are still expect to cause ongoing problems such as poverty and malnutrition, which will make the Sustainable Development Goals unattainable.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Global
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Here’s How COVID-19 Is Impacting the Cold Chain Logistics Market
As India grapples with one of its greatest challenges of producing enough vaccines to inoculate every Indian, ensuring delivery of the same without spoilage is a daunting challenge.
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- Coronavirus
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- infrastructure, vaccines
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Analysis: How Civil Society Organizations Can Help Tackle Pandemics
Capacity building of community-based organizations can enable better access to education and vaccination programmes.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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- vaccines
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The Supply and Demand Dilemma in COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturing: Could Lessons from the Fashion Industry Provide Ideas for a Solution?
Expanding access to the COVID-19 vaccine is essential to stopping global transmission and halting the emergence of new variants of the virus. But efforts to optimize vaccine manufacturing and distribution have been hampered by multifaceted challenges involving supply and demand. Prashant Yadav at INSEAD, Rebecca Weintraub at Harvard Medical School, and biotech and vaccine industry consultant Tom Johnston explain how solutions to those issues may be found in another sector with volatile product demand and a global manufacturing base: the fashion apparel industry.
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- Health Care
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Analysis: Vaccines Given in Last 20 Years Could Prevent 50 Million Deaths in LMICs
New research, led by the Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium, including researchers at Imperial College London, assessed the impact of vaccination activities against 10 infectious diseases across 112 countries.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- Global
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- vaccines
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DFC, IFC, EIB, and AFD Boosting COVID-19 Vaccine Production in Africa with Senegal-based Vaccine Manufacturer IPD
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, International Finance Corporation, European Investment Bank, and the French Development Agency announced their commitment to support Fondation Institut Pasteur de Dakar to bolster the production of COVID-19 vaccines in the country.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- manufacturing, vaccines