Mandakini Devasher Surie

This issue of GovAsia looks at the multidimensional impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in eight cities across Asia. It draws on research conducted between October 2020 and April 2021, in partnership with Kore Global, that focused on the perspectives and experiences of those who receive the fewest benefits of urbanization due to a range of intersectin… Read more

After 20 years of dazzling growth, Asia is now home to nearly half of the world’s urban population. Now, Covid-19 is revealing how this breakneck growth has left behind the very citizens whose toil has built Asia’s prosperity.

The recently released Economic Survey of India—a status report on economic development in the country prepared annually by the Ministry of Finance—proposes a radical idea that has caused a stir in public policy circles. The idea is a simple one—a Universal Basic Income—to provide every individual in the country with a basic and guaranteed minimum w… Read more

The latest United Nations World Water Development Report, released just ahead of World Water Day on March 22, warns that, by 2030, only 60 percent of the world’s demand for water will be met by existing resources at the current rate of use.

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