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Ramesh Thakur

Ramesh Thakur

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Ramesh Thakur, a former United Nations assistant secretary-general, is Emeritus Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. He is the author of The United Nations, Peace and Security: From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect. 

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  3. mazzucato18_MOHD RASFANAFP via Getty Images_covid test Mohd Rasfan/AFP via Getty Images

    How to End the Pandemic This Year

    Reda Cherif, et al.

    While the world waits with bated breath for a safe, effective, widely available COVID-19 vaccine, another option for ending the pandemic has been staring us in the face. A government-led industrial and coordination strategy to achieve universal testing could bring the crisis to an end in a matter of months.

     call for a mission-oriented push to administer frequent universal COVID-19 testing worldwide.
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  7. lee47_Photo by Kevin FrayerGetty Images_covid tracing Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

    The Perils of Big COVID Government in Asia

    Lee Jong-Wha  During a large and complex crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, government’s role naturally grows – and so do the risks of unproductive spending and abuses of power. That is why, as Asian economies seek to contain COVID-19 and its economic impacts, they must also contain their own governments. fears that the pandemic may be used to justify unsustainable public spending and even human-rights violations.
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