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Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Topic(s): Afghanistan, India, Pakistan

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Covid-19 impact: 77% of households face loss of monthly income

The Dhaka Tribune covers an international dialogue moderated by program lead Leah Zamore, hosted with BRAC and UN Women. This event discussed "demographic and socio-economic changes induced by the Covid-19 pandemic: Challenges of new circumstances" in Bangladesh.

Publication Date: Jun 30, 2021

Region/Country: South Asia

Program(s): Humanitarian Crises

Topic(s): Humanitarian Crises, South Asia

Demographic and Socioeconomic Changes Induced by the COVID-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh: Dynamics and challenges of new circumstances

BRAC, UN Women, and New York University’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC) recently concluded a study of the demographic and socioeconomic changes induced by the unprecedented reverse (urban-to-rural) migration that took place in Bangladesh following the COVID-19 lockdown. This virtual dialogue will provide an opportunity for the research partners to discuss these and other findings, and identify solutions, with regional and migration experts. Additionally, a keynote address will be delivered by Professor Dr. Gowher Rizvi, International Relation Affairs Adviser to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh.

Event Date: Jun 23, 2021

Region/Country: South Asia

Topic(s): Humanitarian Crises, South Asia

Program(s): Humanitarian Crises

Digital Equity as an Enabling Platform for Equality and Inclusion

The global pandemic has laid bare the digital inequities across vertical (income) and horizontal (social, political, and identity) dimensions, while exposing the extent to which pre-pandemic approaches to bridging the digital divide have been dominated by economic considerations even while they are not universally treated as policy priorities.

Publication Date: Jun 09, 2021

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Laura E. Bailey, Nanjala Nyabola

Region/Country: Latin America, South Asia

Program(s): Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Demographic and socio-economic changes induced by the COVID-19 pandemic

CIC program lead Leah Zamore participated in a policy dialogue session with BRAC and UN Women to unveil the research paper "Demographic and socio-economic changes induced by the COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges of new circumstances."

"For much of the world, COVID-19 has been a crisis of immobility...But there's another kind of crisis, of forced mobility: for many millions of people, those same lockdowns that have kept much of the world in place made staying in place impossible. It made it impossible to make rent, to find food, to make a living."

Publication Date: May 08, 2021

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Leah Zamore

Region/Country: South Asia

Program(s): Humanitarian Crises

Inequality, Lockdown, and COVID-19: Unequal Societies Struggle to Contain the Virus

There is nothing equal about COVID-19. It is now well established that poor and underprivileged social groups have absorbed most of the pandemic’s negative impact. However, the connection between COVID-19 and inequality might run even deeper. During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, one additional point of the Gini coefficient correlated with a 1.34 percentage point higher rate of weekly new infections across countries. This difference in infection rates compounds like interest every week.

Publication Date: Apr 13, 2021

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Paul Von Chamier

Region/Country: Central Asia, East Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, United States, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, West Africa

Topic(s): Global Governance, Humanitarian Crises

Program(s): Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Reimagining U.S. Asia Policy for a Peaceful Afghanistan

This policy paper by Barnett Rubin, Senior Fellow at CIC examines how the Afghan peace process provides the United States with an opportunity to pivot to a strategy that frees it from dependence on military bases in the landlocked backyard of Russia and China, and how that can provide it with an entry point to an expanded and more effective Asia policy focused on some of the most vital threats confronting humanity.

Publication Date: Jan 06, 2021

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Barnett Rubin

Region/Country: Central Asia, East Asia, United States, South Asia, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan

Topic(s): Afghanistan, South Asia

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Technology and the Future of Work

Recent decades have seen rapid increases in the use of robots and rapid advances in artificial intelligence, driven particularly by improvements in machine learning. From games like chess and Go to speech recognition and image recognition, machines have come to outperform humans in an expanding range of activities. This development has motivated many attempts to gauge the impact on the future of work for humans.

Publication Date: Dec 18, 2020

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Ian Goldin

Region/Country: East Asia, Europe, United States, South Asia, India

Topic(s): International Security, Transnational Threats

Program(s): Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

The Just Transition in Energy

With each new year of data, and each new intergovernmental report, it becomes harder to deny the scale and urgency of the energy transition required to prevent catastrophic anthropogenic climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change urges countries to take action to prevent a rise in temperature by more than 1.5°C, and warns of catastrophic consequences of a rise above 2°C. Yet current policies and pledges fall far short of hitting these targets.

Publication Date: Dec 18, 2020

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Ian Goldin