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Coronavirus comparison: How Scotland and England have done things differently Updated: January 24, 2021, 3:45 pm © Rich Dyson - EdinburghElitemedia Prime Minister and Conservative Leader, Boris Johnson visits Bute House to meet First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon. It was a lovely thought. Four nations united in concerted purpose with a single goal, each pulling together, apart but together, to conquer Covid. In fairness, the accord is unbroken but it has buckled under the weight of the...

Policewoman directs traffic in downtown Lima during the quarantine in Peru. Photo: Victor Idrogo / World Bank As countries prepare for COVID-19 immunization campaigns, it is equally important to look back at the past months and examine what policy interventions worked in the health sector, what did not work and what can be done better. Disrupted global supply chains, limited knowledge of the disease, lack of information and weak monitoring systems were some of the reasons health systems were mo...

Where Does India’s Economic Recovery Stand In Comparison To Other Emerging Markets? by Karan Bhasin - Dec 29, 2020 04:41 AM Representative Image Snapshot The important takeaway is that India’s economic recovery has certainly been stronger if one considers the extent of mobility restrictions that have persisted and that it has done better compared to most of its peers when one puts that factor into context. One of the key things that has kept many of us preoccupied is undertaking cros...

Zidong An, Prakash Loungani A pre-requisite for good macroeconomic policymaking is timely information on the current state of the economy, particularly when economic activity is changing rapidly. Given that GDP figures are usually only available on a quarterly basis, and that monthly survey-based indicators (such as the Purchasing Managers’ Indices) can become unreliable when changes in economic activity are abrupt and massive, the current crisis has prompted a search for alternative high fre...

COVID-19 lessons from Africa for the world 18 Dec 2020 A medical worker takes a sample for COVID-19 during a community testing in Abuja, Nigeria. File/Reuters Hayley Andersen, The Independent The arrival of COVID-19 vaccines has fuelled hopes that the pandemic will be brought under control in 2021. Yet, as daily cases surge around the world, governments still need to reduce the spread of infections. The World Health Organisation says that to stop the chain of transmission, count...