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Facing a Second Wave of COVID-19 in Sri Lanka: Economic Cost of a Lockdown Strategy

Articles | Deshal de Mel, Anushan Kapilan

Background Sri Lanka is currently in the post-lockdown stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the surge in the number of infections in mid-March, the country was forced into a complete lockdown with all-day curfews-imposed island wide. The lockdown was in place for a period of nearly two months. Cur...

Accelerating Private Sector Reform

Articles | Sujeev Shakya

Context Private Sector in Nepal: Following the restoration of peace and the establishment of liberal economic policies in the 1990s, there have been years of sustained private sector expansion in the country. The Nepali private sector contributed about 80% of the economy’s gross fixed capital form...

Corruption Risk Assessment Framework for Business Associations and Chambers of Commerce

Guides & Tools

Risk assessments are an essential element of any organization’s compliance program. The Principles on Combating Corruption for Business Associations and Chambers of Commerce (“Principles”) advise business membership organizations (“Associations”) to conduct periodic risk assessments “wit...

Primum Non Nocere: A Policy Approach for Pharmaceutical Investment in Indonesia

Articles | Andree Surianta

COVID-19 has thrown international trade and investment into disarray; however, it is first and foremost a global health crisis. With Global Value Chains (GVCs) receiving heightened scrutiny, no other industry has been so prominently featured in the discussions of anxious governments as the pharmac...

Against the Norm? Populism and the Coronavirus in Pakistan

Articles | Dr. S Akbar Zaidi

In the last decade, the pandemic of populism, both of the left and the right, has spread far and wide across continents, across different types of countries of varying levels of ‘development’. From Venezuela and Brazil in South America, to Mexico and the USA in North America, right across South ...

COVID-19 and Remittance Flows in Nepal: Potential Turning Point for Development

Articles | Posh Raj Pandey

The Nepali economy shows an atypical structural change over the past one and half decades – the movement of labor out of agriculture was not triggered by new jobs in industries or in high skilled professional services, but by foreign employment opportunities. The remittances sent by such migra...

The Fate of Globalization in the Post-Coronavirus Era by Deputy Regional Director Eric Hontz featured on The National Interest

Articles | Eric Hontz

Globalization cannot simply resume after the virus is no longer a worldwide threat. The scars left behind are simply too deep to cover up with platitudes and promises to do better next time. Two teams take the field. The smell of fresh-cut grass wafts through the air. The umpires take their places a...

Due Process during COVID-19 in Sri Lanka

Articles | Nishana M Weerasooriya, Ahalya Lelwala

Introduction On 11 March 2020, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). In Sri Lanka, the first diagnosis of COVID-19 was reported on 27 January 2020. Indication of the spread of the virus was visible from 11 March 2020, after the second patie...

Thailand: Jump- Starting Economy After Keeping COVID-19 At Bay

Articles | Phisanu Phromchanya

Introduction Thailand has emerged as a success story in containing the COVID-19 outbreak, but the country still faces tremendous pressure on several fronts. A major effort will be required to pull Southeast Asia’s second largest economy back from the abyss. This paper will examine in general terms...

Economic Reforms for Economic Prosperity: There is no Alternative to Speedy Reform

Articles | Sujeev Shakya

Summary The post-pandemic recovery will require large sums of investment that will not be met through interventions from development partners. Nepal will have to open itself to foreign investments by competing with other countries to attract investments and technology to push growth along with craft...