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COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 5, 2020
May 5 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
COVID-19 Daily Scan Views: 3382
Among the clichéd role stereotypes, is that women are more responsible for children and the household, and perhaps care for older family members as well. According to UNICEF, women across the world did three times as much unpaid care work as men even before the current crisis.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Belt and Road Initiative , European Commission , Indian Diaspora in Gulf , RBI , Riyal , Taiwan , US Treasury , Wall Street , Women , WTO

Biological Security: An Imperative for Indo-US Partnership
May 5 , 2020 Gaurav Kumar
Article Views: 4294
The conventional understanding of the term security-both traditional and non-traditional is heavily influenced by the state-centric approach. The proponents of various security policies use concept of security that has military dimension to it- defensive, offensive or preemptive in nature aimed to preserve sovereignty and territorial integrity of the state against adversarial state and non-state actors.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Biological security , Coronavirus , Healthcare , India-US Cooperation , Lessons , Vaccine action programme

कोरोनावायरस ने भारत में परिवर्तन को गति दे दी है
May 5 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
Article Views: 3808
जब से भारत में लॉकडाउन की शुरुआत हुई है, तब से सर्वाधिक रूप से कोरोनावायरस चर्चा के केंद्र में रहा है, चाहे वह टीवी हो, इंटरनेट हो या घर की बातचीत हो तरफ इसपर चर्चा हो रही है। निराशावाद और भ्रम की स्थित...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Hindi , आर्थिक परिवर्तन , कोरोनावायरस , भारत , महामारी , लॉकडाउन

COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 4, 2020
May 4 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
COVID-19 Daily Scan Views: 4549
The MSCI Emerging Market Currency Index, which tracks overall movements of emerging market currencies, dropped 6% in the January-March period this year; the steepest quarterly fall since 2015 when China badly shook global financial markets with the devaluation of the Renminbi.

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : COVID-19 , Daily scan , Dollar , Global Tourism , Inflation , RCEP , Stock Market listing , Taiwan , TPP , Turkey , Wuhan Lab

Lockdown Lessons: Build Self-reliance
May 3 , 2020 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF
Article Views: 3510
The government announced a further two weeks extension of the nationwide lockdown which was to end on 3 May 2020. The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued detailed guidelines on handling the red, orange ...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Chief Ministers , COVID-19 , Economy and livelihoods , FRBM , Global response , PM Modi , Self-reliance

Exchanges on Wuhan Virus: A Poem
May 2 , 2020 Amb Kanwal Sibal
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US CLAIMS To start we have to put the blame On the country that is the source Of virus, and hence the right name Must be in documents of course. I have greatest respect for Xi, We get along superbly wel...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Australia Aims , China Disclaims , Europe Declaims , US Claims , Wuhan virus

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