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All treatment facilities and protocols had a significant bias in favour of the ‘apartment-living citizen’, which is why the Dharavi model is so im
Undernourished people with weak immune systems and those with co-morbidities are strongly linked to adverse COVID-19 outcomes.
The COVID-19 pandemic can serve as an opportunity for India to redefine its approach to economic growth. The policy objective should be that once the threat of the current pandemic subsides, the country will not return to business-as-usual mode and rather build an economy for the future. The Indian government has declared that it is considering measures towards distress mitigation, relief disbursement, and a revival of growth. At the same time, h
Analysing the success of China’s authoritarian model and its democratic counterpart in India
Absence of leadership is not the only problem — the pandemic shows how the WHO failed to address deeper and chronic issues.
Keeping the refugees and IDPs confined in the camps uninformed may be detrimental to effective enforcement of the authorities’ efforts and measures
Creating low carbon cities calls for a paradigm shift in government policies related to the built environment, particularly pertaining to land use, ho
An analysis of how the DHIS2 open-source platform was used in Sri Lanka, Norway, and Uganda during the COVID-19 pandemic
A pandemic-stricken India frantically grapples with a jolt to an education system that is seemingly ill-equipped to handle the transition to distance
The fight against COVID-19 has just begun. It will continue over time.
As China seeks to restore its credibility, creating tensions in the South China Sea should be the least of its priorities
On World Food Safety Day, we look at how COVID-19 has highlighted the growing concerns around food safety
We could either choose the way that leads to better institutions and global systems, or the other, which compromises on environmental, social and ethi
For 2021, governments in Africa will focus on improving their revenue and ending the economic recession, way more than it will focus on managing the p
A gendered understanding of travelling patterns and behaviour trends can help in designing and implementing more equitable policies and efficient mean
While the coronavirus pandemic continues to stay strong, the demand and supply for crucial medical equipment is highly unlikely to disappear.
Ensuring health security is a simple task, albeit not a simplistic one; it will require us to invest domestically in preparedness and response and enh
There is an urgent need to strengthen routine immunisation to prevent the risk of vaccine-preventable disease in children, according to Lancet.
Rather than having an ambition of $5 trillion economy that seems almost unattainable by 2024, it is now important that the next three years focus on the creation of better provisions of public goods and services like health.
As the COVID-19 infection rate continues to increase in the United States (US), this brief examines the country’s social protection system and compares it to those of other rich OECD countries. It argues that implementing basic social protection measures in a time of crisis such as this, may be costly both in resources and time. While addressing immediate needs imposed by the public health emergency is priority, in the long term, institutionali
A new “more equal” world has to replace the old unequal world with a paradigm propagating equality from spatial and temporal dimensions.
The pandemic proved that the Centre and states have different roles but need to work closely during a crisis, instead of adopting a centralised approa
As a major beneficiary of economic globalisation, India must actively prevent a breakdown of the international economic order
