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Democracy and society

The pandemic within the pandemic

Globally, antibiotic use in hospitals has surged since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is fueling the crisis of antimicrobial resistance

By Loice Achieng Ombajo

Reuters

Schwerpunkt

The US and EU must waive the patents

Big Pharma claims that a lack of manufacturing capacity, not patents, are thwarting more vaccine production. That's a lie. We need a TRIPS waiver now

By Lori Wallach

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Work and digitalisation

A shrinking and expanding world

While the pandemic has equalised the access of knowledge around the world, the side-effects will be felt disproportionally in the global labour market

By Branko Milanović

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Work and digitalisation

Changing employment in the age of labour platforms

The Covid-19-induced exponential growth in digital labour platforms forces us to circle back to basic questions about the nature of work

By Jayati Ghosh

Reuters

Economy and ecology

A debt pandemic is engulfing the Global South

Covid-19 is not the only pandemic ravaging across the Global South. A debt pandemic threatens to prevent developing countries' recovery

By Daniel Munevar

Reuters

Economy and ecology

We need to talk about overfishing

By jointly ending harmful fisheries subsidies, China and Europe can help tackle climate change and protect local communities’ livelihoods

By Isabel Jarrett

Reuters

Democracy and society

Why inclusion and equality pay off for all of us

Fostering inclusion and combating inequality should concern everyone — the resulting long-term problems affect society as a whole

By Judith Kohlenberger

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Foreign and security policy

Not even the pandemic could stop a new arms race

The pandemic could have been a chance to reverse high military spending globally. Instead, we could be heading towards a new Cold War-style arms race

By Herbert Wulf

Reuters

Economy and ecology

The new transatlantic alliance

To make the transatlantic economy a leader in the fight against climate change, Europe should work with US President Biden on a joint CO2 tax

By Metin Hakverdi

Reuters

Work and digitalisation

How the post-pandemic labour market will look like

The pandemic has exacerbated racial, gender and educational inequality in the labour market. We need to fundamentally reimagine work after Covid-19

By Laura Tyson, Susan Lund