-The Hindu The Centre must recognise that winning the war on COVID-19 is linked to the States being armed with enough resources The scale of disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has never been seen before. Even as we are in the midst of the second phase of the national lockdown, there is no clarity on the time it will take to come out of the crisis, the extent of damage it...
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Economy headed for contraction, less fiscal space for big stimulus -P Vaidyanathan Iyer
-The Indian Express If that happens, it won’t be unique to India — the IMF expects the Covid pandemic to severely impact growth across regions in its latest World Economic Outlook. It expects the US economy to shrink 5.9 per cent and the global economy to decelerate 3 per cent. New Delhi: As the Centre and states jostle over and grapple with strategies for a staggered exit from the lockdown, the country...
More »Did the WHO Fail to Discharge Its Duties Under International Law? -Jay Manoj Sanklecha
-TheWire.in Donald Trump’s decision to halt funding to the UN health body has renewed intense discussion on its role in handling the crisis. Trump’s decision to halt funding to the World Health Organisation (WHO), amidst a global pandemic, has been rightly criticised as “ill-timed”. However, it has also renewed intense discussion on the role of the WHO in handling the crisis. The White House has accused the WHO of severely mismanaging the...
More »The US and India have failed the developing world -CP Chandrasekhar & Jayati Ghosh
-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 —...
More »Despite fishing activities being exempted under lockdown, fisherfolk in Odisha say workforce, logistics, market situation major hurdles in wake of COVID-19 -Basudev Mahapatra
-Firstpost.com Marine fisherfolk of Odisha foresee a miserable life ahead despite fishery activities being exempted from the purviews of the nationwide lockdown in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak, which has been declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO). "Fishermen of the coastal villages are living a miserable life. And, with no opportunities to earn, either from fishing or daily labour, marine fishing community in Odisha is bound to face...
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