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emerging and frontier markets:

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 Based in:  Manila, Philippines; and Southeast Asia


Posted on Wed, 23 Dec 2020


These places thought they'd nailed the virus. It's creeping back, BNNBloomberg, 23 Dec 20:
The Asia-Pacific region has largely avoided the unbridled outbreaks that continue to dog the US and Europe, but the pandemic's persistence elsewhere means it can be reintroduced to places that have quelled cases locally even with border curbs and mandatory quarantines


Covax global Covid vaccine program secures nearly 2 billion doses as Unicef prepares for distribution, CNBC, 18 Dec 20:
Covax, the global alliance aiming to deliver coronavirus vaccines to the world's poorest countries, said that it now has secured 2 billion doses through supply agreements. It is planning to deliver the 1st doses of vaccine in the 1st quarter of 2021


Accounting for carbon footprint changes view of human progress -- UN agency, AFP, 15 Dec 20 [via Business Recorder/Pakistan]:
A UNDP (UN Devt Prog) report that takes carbon footprints into account for the 1st time, presents world leaders with a choice: take "bold steps to reduce the immense pressure that is being exerted on the environment and the natural world", or risk stalling humanity's progress



Posted on Thu10 Dec 2020


Poor countries seen missing out as rich nations hoard Covid-19 vaccines, Thomson Reuters Foundation, 09 Dec 20:
Nine out of 10 people in dozens of poor nations could miss out on getting vaccinated against Covid-19 next year because rich countries have hoarded far more doses than they need, the People's Vaccine Alliance said on Wed (09 Dec), a coalition incl Oxfam, Amnesty International and Global Justice Now




Shiller, Black & Jivra: Making sense of sky-high stock prices, Project Syndicate, 03 Dec 20 [via Jordan Times/MenaFN]:
Many have been puzzled that the world's stock markets haven't collapsed in the face of the pandemic and the econ downturn it has wrought. But with interest rates low, equities will continue to look attractive, write 2013 Nobel Laureate; Index Standard founder; and Imperial College visiting researcher




Tireless proponent of government-led innovation - Mariana Mazzucato, Finance & Development, Sep/Nov '20:
Her main message is that governments around the world need to seize their power to lead innovation for the betterment of humanity. Just now she's immersed in applying her ideas to the Covid-19 crisis as a member of various task forces as well as in her customary role of economics agitator




Posted on Fri, 27 Nov 2020


World's poorest must not be 'trampled' in race to get Covid vaccines - WHO, BBC News, 24 Nov 20:
The world's poorest and most vulnerable must not be "trampled in the stampede" for Covid-19 vaccines, the head of the World Health Org has warned. He said successful vaccines must be distributed equitably and that $4.3 bil. was needed to help fund a sharing scheme



Petri and Plummer:  RCEP - A new trade agreement that will shape global economics and politics, Brookings (blog), 16 Nov 20:
The 10 ASEAN members and 5 regional partners signed the Regional Comprehensive Econ Partnership. RCEP and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership are the only major free trade agreements signed in the Trump era, write Inst senior fellow; and Johns Hopkins U economist



'Foundational and necessary change' needed to heal post-Covid world - UN chief, UN News, 24 Nov 20:
With the pandemic precipitating one of the world's worst health, socioeconomic and humanitarian crises in over a century, the UN chief told a high-level discussion of  'Rebirthing the Global Economy to Deliver Sustainable Devt for All' to "make real, foundational, and necessary change"



Posted on Thu, 12 Nov 2020


Economist Jeffrey Sachs on the US elections, Der Spiegel, 10 Nov 20:
"US politics is basically a fight between those with a college education and those with a high school education." The man who was once the godfather of the birth of capitalism in East Europe is now working to curb the influence of the free market in the US. He discusses his expectations for Pres-elect Biden




How economists can help combat Covid-19, Amer Econ Assn, 11 Nov 20:
Epidemiology used to be a quiet discipline whose experts were not much used to being in the public eye. Then Covid-19 happened. In the Journal of Econ Perspectives, a Boston U epidemiologist makes the case that economists have an important role to play in studying and responding to it




Singapore to start 'world first' air travel bubble with Hong Kong, Bloomberg, 11 Nov 20 [via Hindustan Times/India]:
Hong Kong and Singapore will start an air travel bubble that will replace quarantine with Covid-19 testing from 22 Nov, officials said. The Singapore transport minister said that this was the 1st travel bubble of its type and may be used as a template for other countries, if successful




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