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COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 4, 2020
May 4 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
COVID-19 Daily Scan Views: 4705
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: 3614
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
Commentary Views: 3738
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

Vietnam: Integral to ASEAN and Reliable for Indo-Pacific
May 1 , 2020 Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF Dr Faisal Ahmed
Article Views: 5691
Introduction
Vietnam will chair the 36th Summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in June this year. The summit which was initially scheduled in April has been shifted to June due to the Covid-19 outbreak. For Vietnam, this summit will also mark the 25th anniversary of its accession to ASEAN.

Indo-Pacific, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : ASEAN 2020 , ASEAN Centrality , Code of Conduct , Hanoi Plan of Action , Post Covid 19 , South China Sea , Vietnam

Shift to Plant Based Proteins to Prevent Future Pandemics
May 1 , 2020 Dr Vijay Sakhuja
Article Views: 5275
Three consignments of African Pangolin scales have been recently seized at ports in two Southeast Asian countries. On the first day of April, port authorities in Port Kelang, Malaysia confiscated six tons of the contraband packed in a shipping container.

Governance and Political Studies, Historical and Civilisational Studies

Tags : COVID-19 , Kebabs , Lab-grown meat , Poultry , SARS-CoV-2 virus , Satvik , Soy , Vegan , Vegetarian

COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 1, 2020
May 1 , 2020 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF
COVID-19 Daily Scan Views: 3551
Victor Dzau, National Academy of Medicine president, appealed to Ursula von der Leyen, his European Commission counterpart, to boost global development and equitable distribution of fast and affordable testing, treatment and vaccines for Covid-19.

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Tags : China , COVID-19 , Covid-19 Drugs , Daily scan , G20 Fundraiser , Global virus response , Interior Ministry , MSMEs , Trump , US medical academy , Wuhan virus

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