Impacts of COVID-19 on tight oil supply: Evidence from a price responsive Model
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Policy Note: Policy Responses to Ensure Access to Water and Sanitation Services During COVID-19: Snapshots from the Environment for Development (EfD) Network
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This policy note provides a snapshot of water and sanitation measures implemented by governments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 14 countries in the Global South: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Chile, Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Panama, South Africa, Uganda and Vietnam. We find that many countries have taken action to stop utility disconnections due to non-payment.
COVID-19 Pandemic and Informal Urban Governance in Africa: A Political Economy Perspective
EfD Authors:
The outbreak and spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is probably the most serious global challenge since World War II. While research has paid considerable attention to the technical, epidemiological and public health aspects of the pandemic in Africa, it neglects the social, economic and political dimensions.
“Women’s work-life is not a women’s issue”
She is dividing her time between the Indian Statistical Institute in Delhi, the International Growth Centre’s India program, and the Institute of Labour Economics in Bonn. Currently, she is leading…
Prof E Somanathan appointed to Lancet Task Force
Prof. E Somanathan has been appointed as a member of the newly formed Lancet COVID-19 Commission Task Force on Green Recovery. The Task Force will focus on how economic recovery plans can support the…
Column on the good and the bad for the environment from the confinement in Colombia
On August 2nd, 2020, EfD Colombia senior researchers Jorge Bonilla, María Alejandra Velez and Jorge Higinio Maldonado published an opinion column in the Colombian diary “El Espectador”. In this column…
REPRC-EfD Nigeria Leads Call for Green Growth Plan for Nigeria
The Resource and Environmental Policy Research Centre (REPRC) Environment for Development (EfD) Nigeria on Friday August 14, 2020 assembled environment experts and scholars from different parts of the…
ENRRI Fellow provides insights on Ghana’s 2020 Mid-Year Budget Review
Economist and ENNRI Research Fellow, Dr Priscilla Twumasi Baffour provided expert insights on Ghana’s 2020 Mid-Year Budget Review to Citi TV in Accra. In her comments, Dr Twumasi Baffour, who is also…
The second edition of “Discussions on Environment for Development” talks about the pandemic, the economics of natural resources and social dilemas
The second edition of the series of documents “Discussions on Environment for Development” has the title “The pandemic of COVID-19 and the economics of natural resources: dealing with social dilemas”…