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The WHO’s COVID-19 pandemic declaration may be late

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INTERNATIONAL

Until this point, the organisation had resisted using the term despite COVID-19 reaching all continents apart from Antarctica and a growing external scientific consensus that the…

Pandemic will have severe impact on Mexican education

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MEXICO

It also appears not to have assessed the effectiveness of its home-learning strategy, established after schools were closed in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Without this…

US 'great resignation' is unlikely to be permanent

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US

At the same time, retirees have not returned to the workforce at anything like pre-pandemic rates. While the pandemic gave some US workers reasons not to work, housing and…

Pandemic takes tough toll on informal women workers

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INT

Policy measures taken in response to the economic crisis created by the pandemic have largely been gender-blind, exacerbating the long-standing economic precarity and gender…

Pandemic fallout will strain Indonesian cabinet

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INDONESIA

It has been slow in disbursing an IDR695.2tn (USD47.3bn) stimulus package designed to mitigate the economic fallout of the pandemic. More generally, several ministries are…

Small firms’ survival struggle may hit US GDP and jobs

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UNITED STATES

High-frequency economic data by firm size lag by months, but signs indicate that small businesses have been disproportionately jeopardised by the pandemic, especially those in…

State budgets recover from pandemic with federal help

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UNITED STATES

The revenue from these tax returns will offer an indication of how badly the pandemic has hit state and city finances. State and municipal governments account for some 36% of all…

Pandemic has worsened several US societal problems

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UNITED STATES

While the pandemic has both amplified and illuminated areas of racial, gender and economic inequality, it has also overshadowed a range of worsening societal problems that had…

Pandemic will test parliamentary scrutiny in Europe

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EUROPE

Far-reaching law-making powers have been delegated to governments throughout Europe, which have engaged in unprecedented levels of public spending; the urgency posed by the…

Despite wellbeing concerns, US adults are happier

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UNITED STATES

Biles provided a high-profile but not uncommon example of the deterioration of individual wellbeing in the United States. Many public health indicators were pointing in that…