... development institutions will need to be devised to assist the developing economies to surmount the effects of the decline in remittances with respect to the financing and budgetary needs
The Covid pandemic dealt a blow not only to the state of the world economy, but to its most important asset, namely human capital. In particular, one of the most significant implications of the Covid pandemic has been the sizeable shock delivered to migration flows and the related flow of remittances. The drastic reduction ...
... reported the first case of COVID-19 in the mutinous city of
Idlib
on July 9 — it had been previously noted that the number of COVID-19 cases could have been greater by an order of magnitude due to the lack of quarantine measures. The Kurdish Self-Administration ... ... cases in
northeast
Syria back on April 28.
Initially, Syrian experts thought that the country’s marginalization in the global economy would make it less vulnerable to the pandemic. The authorities established a governmental headquarters and deployed a ...
... positive agenda as soon as he
failed
to deliver an efficacious response to the pandemic, which has already put the country's economy at risk of
recession
with a gloomy long-term economic outlook.
Russia can no longer alone serve as a scapegoat for misdoings ... ... tried and tested partners — namely Russia. Despite a minuscule
slide
in bilateral trade (a 4% decline compared to 2019) amid COVID-19, political cooperation has been developing. In early July, both countries
demonstrated
close coordination in high-level ...
On July 9, 2020, the Russia-EU Forum video conference was held to discuss the geopolitical and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the global recession. The conference was held by the Russian International Affairs Council, Aspen Institute (Italy), in cooperation with European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), and with the support of the Italian Ministry of ...
... cases of abuse and violence in family homes going unreported.
While the initial unknowns and actions around the pandemic were undoubtedly justified, Canada and the world should be better equipped to understand what is necessary to sustain a more robust economy if there is indeed a second wave of the virus. The most dangerous characteristic of COVID-19 is its weakness to kill. Unlike more deadly viruses that dispatch the host quickly and have a tapered prospect to vault to others and dies out, COVID-19 is carried by asymptomatic humans who unknowingly infect those most vulnerable to the illness....
... American citizens jailed abroad (
https://www.state.gov/secretary-michael-r-pompeo-at-a-pres…/
). They are promising to impose sanctions against “guilty governments”, should their compatriots die due to the coronavirus.
Meanwhile, the situation with COVID-19 in the American correctional facilities keeps deteriorating rapidly (
https://www.bop.gov/coronavirus/
). Many inmates are infected, some of them have deceased. There is hardly any medical assistance for the convicted, neither there is coronavirus ...
... measures taken to combat the epidemic are a facade. Perhaps they are being implemented only so that the current leadership of Egypt does not seem too inhumane. The country does not impose universal quarantine and does not mobilize all resources to combat COVID-19 — and this inaction is largely compelled since the quarantine would inflict a powerful blow on an already weak economy. Health care infrastructure remains very fragile — Egypt struggled with the epidemics of HIV and hepatitis C. The population was dying of hunger and disease until the coronavirus pandemic. With the advent of a new misfortune, the situation became ...
... National Security Act, which significantly tightened the regulation of foreign investment into strategic sectors of the U.S. economy.
Threats to global market freedom started to snowball following the global financial crisis of 2008. The G20 countries ... ... which together account for the bulk of global FDI, estimate that profits will shrink by 30 per cent on average as a result of COVID-19. The
energy and basic materials industries
will be hit the hardest (−208 per cent, taking the shock from the drop ...
... that demand for electricity on weekdays will be more like demand for electricity on weekends as people stay at home. But what does that mean for the sector?
Former Siemens representative in Russia Dietrich Moeller believes that a slowdown in the global economy and a decrease in the electricity consumption especially in the industrial production, cannot be easily compensated by an insignificant increase in private consumption on a global scale. He is confident that energy companies will face lower electricity ...
