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Pandemic Preparedness
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-05-17)This rapid literature review aims to provide initial insights into emerging lessons on pandemic preparedness in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. It pays special attention to research generated by the Covid Collective ... -
Impact of Vietnam’s Covid-19 Response on Vulnerable Groups
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-03-24)Our research shows how Vietnam’s Covid-19 policy response has influenced Vietnamese migrant workers and counter-trafficking work, particularly in border areas. Vietnam is a major labour exporter and is in the top ten ... -
The Impact of Myanmar’s Response to Covid-19 on the Most Vulnerable
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-03-22)The Covid-19 pandemic has caused significant disruption globally. Measures to stop the spread of the virus have been necessary, but their knock-on effects have disproportionately affected the most vulnerable. This briefing ... -
Building the Resilience of the Poor through Graduation in the Post-COVID-19 Global Context
(BRAC UPGI, 2020-09)The health shocks brought on by the spread of COVID-19, coupled with the economic crisis wrought by global lockdown measures, have had an immediate and severe impact on the state of extreme poverty. The scale of the crisis ... -
Is the World Bank’s COVID Crisis Lending Big Enough, Fast Enough? New Evidence on Loan Disbursements
(Center for Global Development, 2020-10-12)The World Bank has forecast an unprecedented global recession in 2020-21, and the reversal of a decades-long fall in global poverty, provoking an acute need for short-term financing in low- and lower-middle income countries. ... -
The Right to Protection of Forcibly Displaced Persons During the Covid-19 Pandemic
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-08-06)The unprecedented shutdown of borders and restrictions on migration in response to the Covid-19 pandemic have put the core principles of refugee protection to test and resulted in the erosion of the right to asylum and ...