
The COVID City
Aug 31, 2020 & consider the risks and opportunities for urban areas, which have borne the brunt of the pandemic worldwide.
Robert Muggah, a co-founder of the Igarapé Institute and the SecDev Group, is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Future Council on Cities and an adviser to the Global Risks Report. He is the co-author (with Ian Goldin) of Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years.
Aug 31, 2020 & consider the risks and opportunities for urban areas, which have borne the brunt of the pandemic worldwide.
Jul 28, 2020 assesses Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s prospects, offers recommendations for tackling police violence, and touts the potential of data-visualization tools.
May 6, 2020 & warns that the Bolsonaro administration has undermined the country's democracy at the worst possible moment.
Apr 23, 2020 says the region is facing a reckoning with the downside of embracing the digital economy.
Mar 27, 2020 & warn that, like climate change and pandemics, growing socioeconomic disparities are a global threat multiplier.
Many would regard the middle of a pandemic-induced economic crisis as the wrong time to sound the alarm about the potential dangers of profligate government spending. But as US President Joe Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion economic rescue plan works its way through Congress, it is not only Republicans who are asking whether providing too much fiscal stimulus could be just as risky as delivering too little.