-The Hindu Business Line By blocking a proposal for the IMF to issue new Special Drawing Rights, the two have denied developing countries much-needed liquidity at a time of extreme economic distress At the recent G20 and IMF-WB Spring meetings held virtually in the third week of April 2020, a proposal for the IMF to issue an additional 500 billion of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) was blocked by the US and —...
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Epidemics change the course of nations and transform societies. Here are four lessons from history -Dinyar Patel
-Scroll.in The past is no recipe for the future – but it can suggest what to expect. Epidemics, much like wars or natural disasters, profoundly influence the course of history. Consider a few examples. Smallpox, malaria, and influenza decimated indigenous Americans after European contact in the 16th century, paving the way for western colonisation of the New World. Yellow fever helped turn the tide of the Haitian Revolution at the beginning of...
More »A virus, social democracy, and dividends for Kerala -Patrick Heller
-The Hindu The State has managed the crisis by building on legacies of egalitarianism, social Rights and public trust The global coronavirus pandemic is a natural, albeit brutal experiment. Just about every part of the world has been impacted and the range of responses we are seeing at the national and subnational levels reveal not only existing inequalities but also the political and institutional capacity of governments to respond. Nowhere is this...
More »Will Migrant Workers and Their Grievances Always Be Invisible to the Public Eye? -Manish K. Jha and M. Ibrahim Wani
-TheWire.in The momentary attention to the migrant exodus was overshadowed by other spectacles that were easily perceived as communal, suited to deflect attention and which positioned the state as proactive. We live in a society that significantly values media spectacles. Spread of disease, risk of contagion, and the plight of migrant labourers become worthy of attention only when a spectacle is made. The representations of migrant’s transit and associated tribulation have emerged...
More »Coronavirus Lockdown: As Hunger Grows, the Fear of Starvation Is Real -Kabir Agarwal
-TheWire.in Over 100 million people face food insecurity if the PDS is not universalised. Meerut: Tek Narayan and Shyam Kishore Singh are migrant labourers who were employed at a construction site earning Rs 300 a day. Since the lockdown was announced, they have been stranded at the site, which is located on the outskirts of Meerut. Their homes are over 1,200 kilometres away in Latehar, one of the most backward districts of...
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