Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

25 March 2020
Neil Webster on how bilateral and multilateral donor agencies can help Africa weather the Third Wave of Corvid-19. In 2018 the WHO published a report in which they discussed the…
24 March 2020
As the coronavirus sweeps across the world with alarming speed and ferocity, the world is finally waking up to the realisation that the pandemic could result in a global…
23 March 2020
The realisation that life is going to change for a good while is starting to take hold. To flatten the curve of the COVID-19 outbreak, radical measures of social distancing are…
22 March 2020
Andreas Klasen analyses measures taken by European export-import banks (Exim-Banks) and export credit agencies (ECAs) aimed at exporters‘ pressing finance constraints. More than…
20 March 2020
Rodrigo Fracalossi de Moraes explores the inequalities creating two very different pandemics in Brazil and elsewhere. In contrast to recent epidemics that impacted almost…
18 March 2020
Do we see ourselves as part of a larger “us,” a “them-and-us,” or an atomised “I”? Just like climate change or political tribalism, coronavirus asks us: do we see ourselves as…
16 March 2020
In light of rising concerns about the spread of COVID-19 and calls to contain the virus, a growing number of post-secondary institutions have shut down in-person classes. The…
13 March 2020
There’s “Keep-calm-and-carry-on” and then there’s burying one’s head in the sand. Germany’s blasé response to the Coronavirus crisis reveals some unpleasant truths. If we have any…
12 March 2020
World Vision’s five lessons about the nexus delivering change in fragile contexts. More than one quarter of all people live in countries affected by fragility, conflict and…
11 March 2020
Karin Costa Vazquez argues that the 'bilateralization' of the BRICS expands the options for the grouping to act and may be the only way for it to survive another decade.…