The Covid-19 Pandemic: Policy Failures and Their Impact on the Lives of the People SSER - IDEAs Online Lecture Series (April 28 - May 16, 2020)

April 28, 2020

First Week (April 28 to May 3, 2020)

Prabhat Patnaik – Globalisation and the Pandemic

C P Chandrasekhar – Addressing the Pandemic: Where is the Money?

Sashi Kumar – Covid 19 Pandemic and the Role of Media

K Hemalata – COVID-19 Pandemic and the Challenges before the Working Class Movement

Abhijit Sen – Covid 19 Pandemic: Impact on Agriculture

Second Week (May 4 to May 10, 2020)

Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker – Thailand and Covid-19: What’s Worked and What’s Next

Utsa Patnaik – Making of the Bengal Famine: Lessons for Today

Surajit Mazumdar – Coronavirus and Crisis of India Economy: Continuity and Change

Jomo Kwame Sundaram – The People United will never be defeated: Comparative Lessons for Containing Covid-19 Contagion

Erik S Reinert – Covid-19 in Europe: Aggravating North–South Tensions in the European Union

Alicia Puyana and Lilia Garcia Manrique – Keeping Distance from the Turmoil: Mexico and its best practices during Covid Times

Third Week (May 11 to May 16, 2020)

Jan Kregel – Why Stimulus cannot solve the Pandemic Depression

Erinc Yeldan – Coronavirus Crisis: Before an After the “New Normal”

Fiona Tregenna, Gilad Isaacs, Zukiswa Kota, Nurina Ally – Covid-19: Views from South Africa

Jayati Ghosh – The Gendered Global Macroeconomics of Covid -19

Walden Bello – Never Let a Good Crisis go to waste: Covid-19 and the opportunity for Food Sovereignty

Jose Antonio Ocampo- Multilateral Financial Support for Latin America during Covid-19 Crisis

Fourth Week (May 18 to May 23, 2020)

Martin Abeles – Covid-19 in South America: Impact and Outlook

Giovanni Andrea Cornia – Causes of COVID-related mortality in the North and in the South

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