Covid & Vaccination Strategy

Ex-UK PM Gordon Brown calls for global government to tackle coronavirus pandemic

Former UK prime minister Gordon Brown has urged world leaders to create a temporary form of global government to deal with the coronavirus crisis.   Brown said the proposed global taskforce […]

Lessons from the frontline: how to stop the spread of COVID-19

Countries have adopted very different approaches to combating coronavirus – and had wildly different results. Mia Hunt explains how some Far Eastern countries have successfully prevented its spread, and identifies […]

Central banks push contactless payments to counter COVID-19

Government authorities in a growing number of countries, including Kenya and Ireland, are taking actions to encourage contactless payments as the coronavirus pandemic escalates. The moves come as governments worldwide […]

Beyond corona: the pros and cons of rent controls

As corona hits people’s incomes, tenants in high-rent areas are among the first to suffer – and, in some countries, the last to receive support. But the virus has only […]

U.S. departments get direct authority to hire experts who can help fight Zika virus

Several U.S. departments have been granted the power to hire directly in a bid to recruit needed health, biology and crisis management experts in the fight against the Zika virus. […]

Ebola – What We Have Learned?

The Ebola crisis shows no signs of abating. It may have moved off the front pages of most Western news media, but the death toll continues to rise, and so […]

Why ‘Now is the time to prepare for the next crisis’

As we recently reported, growth in Sub-Sahara Africa is expected to reach nearly 5% in 2014, rising to possibly 6% in 2015. The figures in the African Economic Outlook look […]