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Juergen Braunstein and Sachin Silva explore the need for financial risk models to account for pandemics.
The Dow Jones industrial average recorded its highest single-day…
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik examines the politics of humanitarian wearables to understand more about how digitization is reshaping the nature and relations of aid.
Utopian…
Iwa Salami reports on countries relaxing cryptocurrency regulations in the wake of COVID-19 and what this may mean for the technology's future.
Anyone holding bitcoin would have…
Maddie Grounds explores calls for the automation of health services and what they may mean for the NHS.
Covid-19 is an unprecedented time in our history. The global pandemic…
The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism 1860-1914 by Donald Sassoon. Allen Lane 2019. 753 pp, £30 hardcover 978-0-241-31516-3, £14.99 paperback 978-0-141-98655-5, £30…
Xi Lin unpicks China's grassroots led efforts “to serve the governed” in response to COVID-19.
A short video went viral in China over the past two days. A Chinese student…
Nathan Alexander Sears wonders whether the explosion of state power in response to COVID-19 will abate or become a feature of our lives.
The COVID-19 virus has now spread to 168…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Rodrigo Fracalossi de Moraes explores the inequalities creating two very different pandemics in Brazil and elsewhere.
In contrast to recent epidemics that impacted almost…
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…
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…
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…