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THE BIG IDEA
A health care worker inoculates a woman with a Covid vaccine at a district hospital in the outskirts of New Delhi on April 22, 2021. | Photo by Anindito Mukherjee/Getty Images
WHAT HAPPENS NOW FOR IP WAIVER TALKS
Cautious but optimistic growth outlook
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), in its October issue of the World Economic Outlook, anticipates global GDP growth to rebound by 5.2% year on year in 2021, following a sharp contraction of 4.4% estimated for 2020 (+2.8% in 2019).
Despite an expected turnaround in global GDP growth, both IMF and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development caution that there are still uncertainties and downside risks for growth in 2021, especially with the potential of new cases increasing widely or if there are challenges in the development and deployment of a vaccine.
We believe the downside risks to 2021 would be less influenced by trade tensions between the US and China, and incoming US president Joe Biden has promised to strengthen trade relations with its allies. With mounting domestic issues at hand, especially with concerns about the pandemic as well as further stimulus measures, we do not anticipate Biden will place additional pres
TORONTO An upcoming nightly curfew in Quebec is hogging the headlines, but some public health experts say it s another plank of Premier Francois Legault s new plan that other provinces should pay the most attention to. Legault announced Wednesday several new measures aimed at curbing the spread of the novel coronavirus in the province, where the COVID-19 curve has been rising sharply since late November. The measures include a curfew that will affect the vast majority of Quebecers. As of Saturday, anyone caught outside their home between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m. for any reason other than work, walking a pet within one kilometre of their home or visiting a pharmacy will be subject to a fine of up to $6,000.
The Globe and Mail Natalie Alcoba Published December 28, 2020
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In the clandestine world of abortions in Argentina, not all women are created equal. The difference is typically money, who you know, where you live and the consequences that follow.
In Felicidad Salinas’s community of Villa 31, one of the impoverished slums of Buenos Aires, there’s someone who sells black-market pills to women who want to terminate a pregnancy. Others turn to dangerous methods, such as inserting parsley stems in their vaginas to induce a miscarriage, said Ms. Salinas, 41.
For Carolina Risso, 40, and a middle-class mother in the capital, the options were different. A doctor friend wrote her a prescription for misoprostol, the World Health Organization-endorsed drug used to terminate pregnancies, which she purchased at a pharmacy, and administered without complication.