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How Thailand Contained Covid-19: Why a Public Health System with Popular Support Matters

It was not authoritarian decrees from above but a strategy of persuasion built on a tradition of cooperation between public health authorities and civil society that made the difference. When the novel coronavirus began its swift spread from China in mid-January,...
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How to Improve Myanmar’s Covid-19 Emergency Relief Program

By Walden Bello, Doi Ra Lahkyen, Jenny Franco, Pietje Vervest and Tom Kramer* The Covid-19 Economic Relief Plan (CERP) that the government rolled out in the last week of April is a welcome initiative for a country that is suffering from both the assault of the novel...
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The Race to Replace a Dying Neoliberalism

The world’s prevailing socio-political models aren’t going to survive this pandemic. What’s going to replace them? The morning will come When the world is mine. Tomorrow belongs to me! From Cabaret In response to the cataclysm occasioned by the coronavirus, three...
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The “New Cold War” between the United States and China

As the "New Cold War" between the United States and China threatens to escalate to an unpredictable outcome, two recent publications from Focus on the Global South authored by Walden Bello, provide an indispensable background to this dangerous conflict. Download both...
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