2020 was a revolution. Here is what actually happened. The IMF-dubbed Great Lockdown saw fear taking the front seat and the social contract rewritten posthaste. …
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The COVID-19 outbreak has led to economic disruptions, causing drastic loss to our livelihood and exposure of inequity in the health system. Hundreds of thousands fell into extreme poverty while risking themselves as a consequence of the virus.
The World Bank released last week its report “Human Capital Index 2020 Update.” It notes how certain countries, namely South Korea and Iceland, “successfully implemented” contract tracing strategies early on in 2020, while most countries employed lockdowns and movement restrictions.
Leading international organizations on nutrition, including Action Against Hunger, Concern Worldwide, the Eleanor Crook Foundation, the International Rescue Committee, and World Vision, wrote a letter…
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told lawmakers on Wednesday that the economy needs more help to economic stimulus to power through the economic impacts of…
Afrikanus Kofi Akosah Adusei (Frisco d’Anconia) is a journalist by profession and a Free Market Policy analyst. Through Africa Youth Peace Call which he founded…
Nearly two billion people, more than half of the world’s workforce, could lose their job or move into part-time work in 2020, according to a…
Jayant Bhandari, who MBA from Manchester Business School (UK) and B. Engineering from SGSITS (India), believes we are now coming to realize how excessively governments…