ZAINAB USMAN If 2020 was the year of the coronavirus pandemic, then 2021 is shaping up to be the year of the vaccine. https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/02/24/vaccine-geopolitics-could-derail-africa-s-post-pandemic-recovery-pub-83928
Month: February 2021
JULIA ANDERSON, FRANCESCO PAPADIA AND NICOLAS VÉRON In 2020, European governments mitigated the economic impact of COVID-19 lockdowns and other pandemic-fighting programmes through a host of initiatives. https://www.bruegel.org/2021/02/covid-19-credit-support-programmes-in-europes-five-largest-economies/
SUMAN BERY, ALICIA GARCÍA-HERRERO AND PAULINE WEIL In April 2020, the G20, at the urging of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, launched the Debt Service Standstill Initiative (DSSI) to mitigate the negative financial impact of COVID-19 in the world’s poorest countries at a time when the pandemic’s medical and economic consequences were highly uncertain. https://www.bruegel.org/2021/02/how-is-the-g20-tackling-debt-problems-of-the-poorest-countries/
DIRK SCHOENMAKER Climate change is a hotly debated issue in the European Central Bank’s ongoing strategy review. https://www.bruegel.org/2021/02/a-brown-or-a-green-european-central-bank/
Chris Heitzig and Leo Holtz On Wednesday, the Central Bank of Sudan steeply devalued its currency to appeal to foreign donors and access debt relief.
Will Wilder This has been a big week for the movement to restore voting rights to people who have been convicted of a crime. Legislative chambers in New York and Washington State both passed bills that would automatically restore voting rights to all people with criminal convictions who are on probation or parole. And a […]
Sean Morales-Doyle On March 2, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a challenge to a pair of Arizona voting policies that make it harder for people to vote, especially in communities of color and Native American communities. The case, Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, is significant because it likely won’t just affect voters in […]
Malia Bouattia Over the past few weeks, David Miller, a professor of political sociology at Bristol University in the United Kingdom, has been the subject of a vicious smear campaign, alleging he has made anti-Semitic comments. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/2/28/a-war-is-being-waged-against-academic-freedom-in-britain
Amrit Singh In 2018, Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi went to the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul to pick up documents he needed for his wedding. He never walked out. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/2/27/khashoggis-murder-it-is-time-for-accountability
Nick Dearden Late last week, the leaders of the most powerful countries on earth seemed to have been infected with a bout of internationalism. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/2/26/system-change-not-charity-will-end-the-vaccine-apartheid
Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni In 2017, a professor at Oxford University in the United Kingdom proposed a research project. The key thesis: that the empire as a historical phenomenon – distinct from an ideological construct – has made ethical contributions and that its legacy cannot be reduced to that of genocides, exploitations, domination and repression. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/2/26/colonialism-in-africa-empire-was-not-ethical
James M. Dorsey Back in 1991, in the immediate wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Israel desk of Armenia’s foreign ministry—populated at the time by fluent Hebrew speakers—waited for a phone call that never came. The ministry was convinced that Israel, with whom Armenia shared an experience of genocide, was a natural […]