Since January 8, 2023, the Chinese government has optimized and readjusted its Covid-19 policy. China has started to manage Covid-19 with measures against Class-B instead of the more serious Class-A…
Uganda motorbike taxi driver Charles Ssebale fears his vehicle could be repossessed at any moment, having failed to keep up with his loan repayments after the East African nation imposed…
British authorities have searched five homes and arrested eight people in connection with insider-dealing investigations since March 2020, pointing to a lull in regulatory action at a time when widespread…
In 1963, Barry Goldwater, the future Republican Party nominee for President of the United States, published a book titled Why Not Victory? In it, he argued that the United States was…
Politicians in rich countries are trying to ‘move on’ from the pandemic; to manipulate the emotional fatigue of the public and tell them what they want to hear: that this…
It has dominated news cycles, debates and policies since 2020, but COVID-19 continues to exercise the interest of number crunchers and talliers. While the ghoulish daily press announcements about infections…
I AM proposing the setting up of a ‘National Covid-19 Commission’. Why? The rearview mirror is an important metaphor for learning and planning. “We drive into the future using only…
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the list of Europe’s woes keeps growing as it battles rising food and energy prices and continued disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. From political…
WITH few cases and no deaths from Covid-19 in Pakistan in recent weeks, the pandemic seems to have taken a back seat while political chaos is taking centre stage. The…
The pandemic has exposed the limited institutional capacity of both individual governments, and multilateral institutions, primarily reached under the neoliberal mantra of limited governments which, among other things, meant outsourcing…
