Covid-19 pandemic, leadership & apathy
In a country of about 210 million people, about 10,000 individuals, prominent in business or profession or holding key positions in state institutions, think they know each and everything and…
A determined path to SDGs in 2030 despite COVID-19 pandemic
As lockdowns ease in countries across Asia and the Pacific in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing is clear—a return to business as usual is unimaginable in a…
Covid-19: a pandemic that lays bare deep cracks in the neoliberal economic order
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…
Covid-19: a pandemic that lays bare deep cracks in the neoliberal economic order
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…
Mental illness during Covid-19
IN my last column on the physical health of those with mental illness, I talked about evidence that showed people with mental illness had higher physical morbidity and early mortality as compared…
Pandemic accord
THE Covid-19 pandemic killed millions worldwide, shattering the myth that the advanced West was better prepared to deal with it as compared to poorer countries. The pandemic also exposed the…
Dealing with Covid-19 in Pakistan
The metaphor “black swan” was used in Roman literature to express impossibility as it was perceived that swans were always white. Black swans were discovered in Australia in 1697, and…
Scientists wary of bird flu pandemic ‘unfolding in slow motion’
Scientists tracking the spread of bird flu are increasingly concerned that gaps in surveillance may keep them several steps behind a new pandemic, according to Reuters interviews with more than…
