India Pandemic Worsens One of the World’s Worst Gender Gaps
Bhaskar Chakravorti explains why women in India have suffered disproportionately from the COVID-19 pandemic, via an article in Bloomberg.
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Did Big Tech Save the World From an Even Bigger Economic Meltdown? | Bhaskar Chakravorti in Foreign Policy
Did the nations with better digital readiness experience greater economic resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic? According to Bhaskar Chakravorti, the positive associations between advanced digital evolution and economic stability are notable but not universal.
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Abandoning Globalization Will Only Hurt U.S. Businesses | Professor Thomas Holt in Harvard Business Review
Professor Thomas Holt describes four reasons why abandoning globalization due to the COVID-19 pandemic will hurt the United States in
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Fletcher Reads the Newspaper | A Pandemic-Proof World: Multilateralism’s Shining Moment or Mission Impossible?
On Friday, April 3rd, the IBGC hosted the 16th installment of “Fletcher Reads the Newspaper”, a series of events that
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Which Countries Were (And Weren’t) Ready for Remote Work? | New Digital Planet Research
Key insights from Digital Planet’s Social Distance Readiness Benchmark, which analyzes 42 countries on their ability to enter and exit
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Lessons from 6 countries on how to end coronavirus lockdowns: Bhaskar Chakravorti in Business Insider
Many countries are considering their exit strategies from the “Great Lockdown” while others have already began to ease up. The
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Who Is Practicing Social Distancing Best?: Bhaskar Chakravorti on NBC Boston
Bhaskar Chakravorti was interviewed by NBC Boston to share insights from the latest Digital Planet research on COVID-19. In the
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To restore the economy, we must fix America’s technology gaps: Bhaskar Chakravorti in The Hill
In addition to contract tracing, the digital experience needs fixing. Even as companies slowly return to business as usual, we’ll
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Video Summary: How Prepared are Countries Around the World to Deal with the Constraints of COVID-19?
New research from Digital Planet examines the “social distance readiness” of 42 countries throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch the video summary here to learn more.
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Supply Chain Responsibilities in a Global Pandemic
What is the responsibility of Western retailers to the workers who make their garments as the coronavirus forces factories to shut down? Fletcher professor Jette Steen Knudsen discusses the topic with Erin Leitheiser, Shaidur Rahman, and Jeremy Moon in Business for Society.
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