
News by Country: Global / Asia and the Pacific
28 July 2020
· Forecasting recoveries is difficult:
Evidence from past recessions (VOX CERP Policy Portal, 26 April
2020)
·
Scaling up the COVID-19 crisis response
now will avoid higher costs later (World Bank Blogs, 24 April 2020)
· The COVID-19 crisis: A wake-up call to
strengthen social protection systems (ILO, 24 April 2020)
· G20 Labour Ministers step back from globally
co-ordinated action plan to respond to Covid-19 social and economic crisis (ITUC/TUAC, 24 April 2020)
· Cooperatives and wider SSE enterprises
respond to COVID-19 disruptions, and government measures are being put in place (ILO, 24 April 2020)
· Cash help crucial for informal workers, says UN labour
chief, stressing primacy of multilateralism (UN, 24 April 2020)
· DemocracyWatch: journalists and
dissidents arrested in COVID crackdowns (openDemocracy, 24 April 2020)
· Chemical sector unions respond to
Covid-19 (IndustriALL, 24 April 2020)
·
COVID-19 will hit the poor hardest.
Here’s what we can do about it (World Bank Blogs, 23 April 2020)
·
Human rights ‘uplift everyone’; must guide COVID-19
recovery response, says UN chief (UN, 23 April 2020)
·
World Bank predicts sharpest decline of
remittances in recent history (World Bank, 22 April 2020)
· G20 Labor and Employment Ministers’ Meeting on COVID-19 (ITUC, 23 April 2020)
· Foreign-born healthcare workers risk their lives in Western
countries for victims of a virus that does not discriminate according to colour,
religion (The Jordan
Times, 23 April 2020)
· Multilateralism,
SDGs and COVID-19: What role for workers’ organisations? (ILO ACTRAV, 22 April 2020)
· COVID-19: Action in the Global Garment Industry (ILO,
22 April 2020)
· Global food retailers sign landmark Declaration with UNI to tackle
Covid-19, others should follow (UNI, 22 April 2020)
· Rights must be
on the agenda as G20 agriculture ministers meet! (IUF, 22 April 2020)
· WTO must stop
negotiations on new trade deals and focus on access to medicine and saving
lives! (IUF, 22 April
2020)
· Abandoned at sea in the midst of a pandemic (ITF,
22 April 2020)
· ITUC-AP Survey:
Government Responses to COVID-19 (ITUC-AP, 22 April 2020)
· Economic Impact of the Covid-19 Crisis – by John Evans (TUAC, 20 April 2020)
· First case related to Covid-19 under the MNE Guidelines (TUAC, 20 April 2020)
· ADB’s $20 billion COVID-19 Pandemic Response: Frequently Asked
Questions (ADB, 20 April
2020)
· Asia-Pacific virus bill could hit US2tn (Taipei Times, 20 April 2020)
· Covid-19
Tracker: Which Brands Are Acting Responsibly toward Suppliers and Garment
Workers? (WRC, 18 April
2020)
· Amazon Workers Around the World Stand Up to Bezos (UNI, 18 April 2020)
· We cannot let
domestic violence accompany the spread of COVID-19 (IUF,
18 April 2020)
· Factbox: IMF, World Bank disburse funds to help countries battle
pandemic (Reuters,
18 April 2020)
· Coronavirus
economics: Debt-laden countries at risk, as financial markets screech to a halt (UN, 17 April 2020)
· IMF and World Bank take steps to contain pandemic and reduce
debt burdens, but fall short of an equitable plan for reconstruction (ITUC, 17 April 2020)
· ITUC May 1st
Statement - One World: Jobs, Incomes, Social Protection (ITUC, 17 April 2020)
· Joint Statement on the Global Response to COVID-19 (ITUC, 17 April 2020)
· COVID-19 responses must be built on human solidarity, ILO tells
World Bank/IMF (ILO, 17 April 2020)
· COVID-19: What role for workers’ organisations? (ILO, 17 April 2020)
· Prevention and Mitigation of COVID-19 at Work Action Checklist (ILO, 16 April 2020)
· IMFC urges use of all policy tools to defeat the pandemic:
Communique of the Forty First of the IMFC (IMF, 16 April 2020)
· ITUC Global COVID-19 Survey: 30 March - 2 April 2020 - Key
Findings for Commonwealth Countries (ITUC, 16 April 2020)
· World Bank prices a Euro 3 billion 8-year benchmark to support
programs in member countries (World Bank,
16 April 2020)
· The economic impact of COVID-19 on South Asia: 3 Visuals (World Bank,
16 April 2020)
· G20 agrees debt relief for low income nations (FT, 16 April 2020)
· COVID-19 Pandemic and the Asia - Pacific Region: Lowest Growth
since the 1960s
(IMF, 15 April 2020)
· World Bank raises record-breaking USD8 billion from global
investors support its member countries (World Bank, 15 April 2020)