This article is part of a series of stories and op-eds launched by IPS on the occasion of this year’s International Women’s Day on March 8.
Rohingya refugee women in Jammu, India. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS
JAMMU, India, Mar 6 2018 (IPS) – In the semi-lit makeshift tent covered with strips of cardboard, five women sit in a huddle. As their young children, covered in specks of mud and soot, move around noisily, the women try to hush them down. Hollow-eyed and visibly malnourished, all the women also appear afraid.
Aged 19-30, they have two things in common: one, they are Rohingya refugees from Myanma…
Francesco Grigoli and Damiano Sandri are economists at the International Monetary Fund (IMF)*
COVID-19: UNESCO– Solutions for Distance Learning
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WASHINGTON DC, Oct 12 2020 (IPS) – One enduring lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic is that any lasting economic recovery will depend on resolving the health crisis.
in the latest World Economic Outlook shows that government lockdowns—while succeeding in their intended goal of lowering infec…
ROME, Oct 19 2021 (IPS) – ‘COVID 19 has multiplied hunger and malnutrition challenges. We need transformative action!’ The first speaker at the UN Committee on World Food Security’s (CFS) 49th Plenary Session, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, turned the spotlight on the disastrous impacts of the pandemic that have afflicted communities around the world for close to two years.
Nora McKeon
He was echoed by the presenter of the 2021 edition of the State of for whom ‘COVID is only the tip of the iceberg’, while keynote speaker, Jeffry Sachs, emphasized the multifaceted nature of the crisis, with chronic poverty and conflict at the center.
Delega…