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Analysis & Opinion
What lessons can Africa learn from India’s COVID-19 crisis?
Analysis and Opinion Brookings Institution Article/Blog post by John Schellhase“The lessons from India’s experience are especially relevant to other developing countries, like those in Africa, that will not benefit from the shield of mass vaccination in the near term. The overarching lesson is that COVID-19 is a ‘complacency virus’; its surveillance and suppression must be continually adapted.”
Delta variant deepens crisis for Tunisia’s fragile democracy
Analysis and Opinion Tunisia Financial Times Article/Blog post by John Schellhase“A fast-deteriorating health situation has added to Tunisia’s political and economic woes as the aggressive Delta variant of coronavirus takes hold in a country with low vaccinations and the Arab world’s highest COVID-19 death rate.”
Lessons for Macroeconomic Policy from Nigeria Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
Analysis and Opinion Nigeria SAIIA Report/Study by John Schellhase“The Nigerian government has responded notably to address the pandemic’s impact on the economy. So far, $ 1.4 billion in additional spending has been executed, which is estimated at 0.3% of GDP. This paper examines the macroeconomic landscape and policy interventions in Nigeria with the objective of developing lessons not only for Nigeria but for other developing economies.”
Vaccine Diplomacy and Beyond: New Trends in Chinese Image-Building in Africa
Analysis and Opinion SAIIA Report/Study by John Schellhase“The paper shows that while Chinese diplomats have experimented with many innovative public diplomacy tools, the Guangzhou incident occasioned a retreat to more conventional methods.”
Multilateralism’s failure to tackle our biggest challenges is compounding them
Analysis and Opinion European Council on Foreign Relations Op-ed by John Schellhase“Our collective failure to end the pandemic now will create and compound even deeper and more costly problems in the future. The immediate knock-on effects, including for the West, will be severe. But this historic failure of multilateralism is also undermining the trust and incentives necessary for effective international cooperation on the other existential challenges of the day – most notably, climate change.”
Third wave cases mount as tourism jobs crash
Analysis and Opinion Namibia / South Africa / Tunisia / Zambia / Zimbabwe Africa Confidential Article/Blog post by John Schellhase“While case numbers and deaths from COVID-19 continue to rise across Africa, the devastating costs of the travel restrictions that have been imposed on visitors as a consequence continue to grow. The economic damage caused by the closure of the tourism economy in Southern and North Africa last year is continuing, perhaps worsening, this year.”
COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in low- and middle-income countries and recommendations to increase uptake
Analysis and Opinion International Growth Centre Report/Study by John Schellhase“Evidence from this sample of LMICs suggests that prioritizing vaccine distribution to the Global South should yield high returns in advancing global immunization coverage. Vaccination campaigns should focus on translating the high levels of stated acceptance into actual uptake.”
How COVID-19 Undermines Democracy in Africa
Analysis and Opinion SAIIA Article/Blog post by John Schellhase“In prioritising public health, governments have drawn on emergency legislation to implement lockdown regulations. These measures narrow the gap between authoritarianism and democracy and can be used as a pretext for authoritarian regimes to hold on to power.”
Visualizing the Debt Service Drag on Developing Country Governments
Analysis and Opinion Center for Global Development Article/Blog post by John Schellhase“The G7 countries pledged a massive scale-up in support of developing-country financing at their recent summit in the UK. How it will be financed remains an open question. But analyzing trends in recent debt flows by lenders to developing countries, and taking stock of the Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI), can provide some important lessons for the G7’s new ambitions.”
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