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COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 29, 2020
May 29 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
COVID-19 Daily Scan Views: 3136
The coronavirus pandemic “has disrupted the production of many key statistics,” the International Monetary Fund said in a blog post this week. The IMF explained that lockdown measures in many countries to contain the virus has hampered physical visits to stores to survey retail prices, while businesses that have to temporarily shut may not have the resources to respond to questionnaires about production and investment plans.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Business Travel , Chinese students , COP26 , Coronavirus , COVID-19 , Daily scan , Food waste , Hong Kong , IMF , Russia , Sustainable Investing , WHO

पाकिस्तान: कोरोनावायरस महामारी से निपटने में परेशान करने वाली बात
May 29 , 2020 Tilak Devasher, Consultant, VIF
Article Views: 3210
पाकिस्तान में कोरोनावायरस का पहला मामला 26 फरवरी 2020 को कराची में आया। उसके बाद यह चारों प्रांतों, राष्ट्रीय राजधानी तथा कथित आजाद जम्मू-कश्मीर एवं गिलगिट बाल्टिस्तान तक पसर गया। शुरुआती संक्रमण ईरान स...

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Hindi , कराची , कोरोनावायरस , पाकिस्तान , राष्ट्रीय स्वास्थ्य मंत्रालय

COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 28, 2020
May 28 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
COVID-19 Daily Scan Views: 3478
The European Union set out a $2 trillion coronavirus response plan, including a massive pooling of national financial resources that, if approved, would deepen the bloc’s economic union in a way that even the Eurozone debt crisis failed to achieve.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Arctic , Big Data , Daily scan , European Commission , Gazprom , Hong Kong , Huawei , Japan Tourist Industry , Meng Wangzhou , Merck , Nord Stream 2 , Power of Siberia , Singapore , Superspreaders , Taiwan

Decoding India-China Standoff at the LAC
May 28 , 2020 Lt Gen AS Bedi (Retd.)
Article Views: 10027
Recently, a distinguished author in an article in a prominent Indian newspaper while giving a detailed account of the India China border dispute has brought out some pertinent and relevant facts. Howeve...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : Differing Perceptions , Galwan valley , LAC , Ladakh , Nakula , Sikkim

COVID-19: Visible Arrows, but Still in the Quiver
May 28 , 2020 Radhika Daga
Article Views: 4379
The pandemic outbreak has caught almost the entire global population on the hop. The rare retreat from the regular has sent the world in a tizzy. However, while this indefinite hiatus has put a halt on ...

Technological and Scientific Studies

Tags : Coronavirus , COVID-19 , Gene-Engineering , Microbiology , Vaccines

Math and effect of Modi package
May 28 , 2020 S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF
Commentary Views: 4161
Its explicit intent is to provide for the deprived and disturbed through direct fiscal spend from the budget. The Modi stimulus package is in three parts — direct government spend, bank credit, and rate cut and lending by RBI to banks. Modi’s detractors damn the package saying the bank credit part of the package is large and the government share is insignificant.

Economic Studies, Governance and Political Studies

Tags : COVID-19 , Economic Package , G7 , GDP , Indian financial model , Modi package , RBI

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