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Longstanding European democracies have suffered troubling erosions to individual rights and freedoms in recent years due to pandemic countermeasures and a host of other reasons. Aarti Narsee* As the coronavirus pandemic moves into its third year, there is no doubt that it will have lasting effects on civic and democratic …

Egypt Today “Egypt Economic Monitor: The Far-Reaching Impact of Government Digitalisation”, a report published by the World Bank (WB) at an event with Egypt’s Ministry of International Cooperation on Tuesday. The report details the World Bank’s assessment of Egypt’s latest economic developments and outlook. It provides analysis focused on the …

Kate Pickett ponders how social scientists can bring structural inequalities to light when media focus on individual lives. Kate Pickett* Epidemiologists and public-health researchers tend to work at scale. Although, as with doctors, our work is aimed at uncovering the causes of disease and death, our focus is a population …

Ahram Online The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and allied countries are deciding the oil output for the global economy in a virtual meeting on Wednesday amid a spike in crude oil price and fears of a Western alleged probable Russian military move against Ukraine. The likely outcome …

Alaa Thabet – Ahram Online South Korean President Moon Jae-in believes “Egypt is a magnet for global investments with a huge potential for growth”. This is why the two countries signed a comprehensive partnership agreement during President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s visit to Seoul in March 2016. Moon landed in Cairo on …

Denying vaccination to Africa was always bound to rebound on the global North. Ndileka Mandel* Much of the world ignored the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa, at least until it became impossible to ignore. Much of the world ignored periodic outbreaks of Ebola in Africa, at least until infections travelled to the global North. While much …

New working arrangements could hold out more self-determination for workers. Too often they have meant more stress. Rolf Schmucker* The pandemic, which has been going on for almost two years, has brought about many changes in the world of work. These include the undoing of limits on working hours, increased …

The world’s health workforce could be vaccinated in 36 hours if the pandemic of tax abuse were ended. Rosa Pavanelli* The recent Pandora Papers leaks came as a kick in the teeth for the world’s frontline workers. While they have been risking their lives to save lives, economic elites and corporations have …

Doaa Moneim – Ahram Online “Egypt has done well regarding the implementation of its economic reforms and the government performance amid the pandemic. It has the potential to serve as a regional economic hub”, Merza Hasan, the dean of the Board of Executive Directors at the World Bank Group told …

Alaa Thabet – Ahram Online In an interview with Al-Ahram Chief Editor during his brief visit to Cairo, Maeen Abdulmalik affirmed that his government will always support peace efforts and will never stand in the way of peaceful solutions. Yemen’s Prime Minister, Maeen Abdulmalik, called upon the international community to …