... no less formidable. These affected first and foremost the youngest generation of the globe – according to UNESCO, “more than 1.5 billion students and youth across the planet are or have been affected by school and university
closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic
”. On top of the adverse effects on the younger generation (see Box 1), there is also the widening “teachers gap”, namely a worldwide shortage of well-trained teachers. According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), “69 million ...
The Covid pandemic has elicited a number of deficiencies in the current global governance framework, most notably its weaknesses in mustering a coordinated response to the global economic downturn
Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes ...
... 0.32% of their combined GNI. Initial estimates indicate that within total ODA, DAC countries spent USD 12 billion in 2020 on COVID-19 related activities. As a result, ODA assistance in 2020 increased by 3.5% compared to 2019 and reached its highest level ... ... rising needs of the least developed countries that were hard-hit by the sharp fall in FDI and remittance inflows due to the pandemic-induced restrictions. It has to be noted also, that ODA levels
declined in 13 out of 30 members of DAC in 2020
.
One ...
... sanctions). However, the divergence began to grow markedly in 2017, and was later on significantly magnified by the Covid crisis.
Indeed, the Covid crisis generated notable differentiation across sectors as some were disproportionately affected by the pandemic and quarantine measures (tourism, travel), while others were given a major boost (telecommunications, IT and computer services). Russia’s macroeconomic policy, including sectoral taxation patterns, may have contributed to the differentiation ...
The current pandemic may well engender longer lasting and more fundamental social and economic effects, such as risk-aversion and the shift from “mass culture” to that of the “revolt of isolationism”
The current pandemic may well engender longer lasting ...
... Lavrov’s interview with the RBC media holding on current international issues, Moscow, May 15, 2020
Question:
The coronavirus pandemic has already closed many countries. Do you think the world will be again as open and mobile as it was before the pandemic?
Sergey Lavrov:
Many discussions are being held on this issue today. Indeed, many COVID-19 response measures are being taken at random because nobody knows for sure how to effectively counter this infection. Decisions are made in response to immediate epidemiological challenges. These measures are seriously restricting the usual life ...
... Russia’s status and self-image, Moscow must reduce its dependence on China by fostering its relations with other large economic and financial players: primarily European countries, India, and Japan.
Although the crisis precipitated by the new coronavirus pandemic is still in its very early stages, it is clear that it has vastly accelerated the ongoing processes around the world. The most consequential is the intensification of Sino-American rivalry and the emergence of new global bipolarity. It is this ...
... 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 ...
... Festival, when internal inter-city travel peaks.
It is difficult to talk about any specific guilt of the Chinese leadership for a pandemic in this light. Exactly the same blunder fluctuations with the introduction of draconian anti-epidemic measures due to ... ... of dollars and scrapping the personal plans of tens or hundreds of millions of people. In the world that existed before the COVID-19 epidemic, it was impossible for a politician or official in any country to take such steps only on the basis of assumptions....
... Trump threatened to impose sanctions on those countries that did not evacuate their citizens from the United States during the pandemic. What is that all about and what could follow?
Sergey Ryabkov:
We are trying to figure it out. There are not a lot of ... ... political and psychological barriers, to look at themselves from the outside is one of the lessons that can be learnt from the COVID-19 crisis.
Question:
Mr Ryabkov, let us recall the New York Times publication which accused President of Russia Vladimir ...
