The COVID-19 pandemic is, at the surface, a health crisis, but it has rapidly escalated into a series of socioeconomic challenges in a world interconnected by cities. Fearing the collapse of public health systems due to the lack of preventative and curative strategies, the World Health Organization, supported by national … Read more
This policy brief advocates for a coordinated Group of Twenty (G20) global governance response to COVID-19 and future pandemics. The authors identify a crucial governance gap, requiring enhanced multilevel coordination to improve states’ institutional resilience and policy preparedness for managing pandemics and shock-induced challenges. G20 cooperation, including a new Pandemic … Read more
Global challenges require cross-border collaboration. Viruses have no respect for territorial boundaries, and the subsequent economic, social, and political challenges can have both domestic and international consequences. While health care workers are on the front lines to help reduce the loss of life and human suffering caused by the COVID-19 … Read more
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented symmetric shock worldwide. The main challenge is promptly addressing the reduction in incomes and jobs in order to reduce the short-term losses and to compensate for missing income and growth in the future. We present three proposals: 1. To establish an exceptional financial … Read more
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has posed major challenges to health care systems worldwide. It will also have long-lasting effects on the economy, pushing millions around the world into precarity and poverty. The already vulnerable will be hit even harder—the slum dwellers; irregular and undocumented migrants, who are mostly women; … Read more
We are currently in the midst of a worldwide trial that has changed our lives beyond recognition. It is a challenge on the global level – for the G20, the WHO and other international bodies – since the Coronavirus does not respect national boundaries. But it is just as much … Read more
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world have provided a massive fiscal and monetary stimulus. While this policy is welcome in the short run, it does not address the underlying problem in the medium and long run. The reason is that the pandemic has not given rise … Read more
This Policy Brief is offered to the Saudi T20 process, as a recommendation to the G20 in 2020. Challenge In less than six months, a novel coronavirus – SARS-CoV2 – that causes a disease called Covid-19, has infected millions of people, caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, disrupted the … Read more
This Policy Brief is offered to the Saudi T20 process, as a recommendation to the G20 in 2020. Challenge While it has been clear since the Asian and Emerging Markets’ crises of 1998-99 that unfettered globalisation and the increasing financialization of our economies, widening inequalities within societies, and the … Read more
This Policy Brief is offered to the Saudi T20 process, as a recommendation to the G20 in 2020. Challenge Infrastructure investment is widely recognized as a crucial driver of economic development as addressed in the Group of 20 principles for quality infrastructure investment (QII). However, the quality, quantity, and … Read more
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