The outbreak of COVID-19 has substantially accelerated the digitalization of the economy. Yet, this unprecedented growth of digital technology brought novel challenges to the labour market. Rise in income inequalities and precarious working conditions or polarization of jobs. In this essay, we try to assess what tools to use to counter these trends. 2021 Level: beginner Post-pandemic future of work - How does digitization impact labour? Neha Chauhan, Miguel Corredera, Krystian Lukasik, Filipa Reis Exploring Economics South Africa’s taxi industry was established by black people in the 1930s and has faced numerous challenges, including those posed by decades of apartheid laws. Covid-19 has highlighted contemporary challenges facing the industry and has also raised questions about how it can keep ‘driving forward’. This podcast explores questions such as what changes need to be made, and who can be the ‘drivers’ of such change. 2021 Level: advanced Driving Forward Social and Solidarity Economy: The Case of South Africa's Taxi Industry Maria Fustic, Georgia Pagiavla, Paloma Chuquín Alarcón, Jing-Syuan Wong, Georgia Pagiavla, Paloma Chuquín Alarcón, Jing-Syuan Wong Exploring Economics What made the false assumption that saving the economy at all cost during a pandemic so popular? This paper discusses different pathways through the COVID-19 pandemic at national and international level, and their consequences on the health of citizens and their economies. 2021 Level: beginner How not to save the economy? The interplay of economics and health during the COVID-19 pandemic Vera Leuner, Navaneeth M S, Leandro Pereira Monteiro, Eduardo Lacerda Camargo Bisneto Exploring Economics The world is regularly shaken by crises some are bigger others are smaller in scope Local turmoil military conflicts commodity scarcity bank runs health threats the history of mankind can be written as a history of crises Three major global crises occurred in the last fifty years alone the oil … 2021 Level: beginner Understanding Crises - What to take from here for better policy advice in the future? Dr. Carolina Alves, Prof. Dr. Ishac Diwan Exploring Economics Tetteh Hormeku-Ajei, member of the Post-Colonialisms Today Working Group, discusses the role of the state in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 Level: beginner The Central Role of the State in Responding to COVID-19 Tetteh Hormeku-Ajei Post-Colonialisms Today: postcolonialisms.regionsrefocus.org Jihen Chandoul, a member of the Post-Colonialisms Today Working Group, discusses the impact of import-dependency on African food supply chains since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 Level: beginner Recovering Post-Independence Food Sovereignty for the COVID-19 Crisis Jihen Chandoul Post-Colonialisms Today: postcolonialisms.regionsrefocus.org Post-Colonialisms Today researchers Kareem Megahed and Omar Ghannam discuss the importance of industrial policy during the pandemic to improve domestic capacity for manufacturing essential goods. 2020 Level: beginner Egypt's Past Industrialization Project: Lessons for the COVID-19 Crisis Kareem Megahed and Omar Ghannam Post-Colonialisms Today: postcolonialisms.regionsrefocus.org Post-Colonialisms Today researcher Chafik Ben Rouine looks to Tunisia’s post-independence central banking method to provide insight on what progressive monetary policy can look like. 2020 Level: beginner Monetary Policy for Development, During and Beyond Crisis Chafik Ben Rouine Post-Colonialisms Today: postcolonialisms.regionsrefocus.org This article applies insights from behavioral economics to consider how the general public may make decisions around whether or not to receive a future COVID-19 vaccine in a context of frequent side effects and preexisting mistrust. Three common cognitive biases shown to influence human decision-making under a behavioral economics framework are considered confirmation bias, negativity bias, and optimism bias. 2021 Level: advanced A behavioral economics perspective on the COVID-19 vaccine amid public mistrust. SALESKA, Jessica Londeree and CHOI, Kristen R. Society of Behavioral Medicine The dominant view of inflation holds that it is macroeconomic in origin and must always be tackled with macroeconomic tightening. In contrast, we argue that the US COVID-19 inflation is predominantly a sellers’ inflation that derives from microeconomic origins, namely the ability of firms with market power to hike prices. 2023 Level: expert Sellers’ Inflation, Profits and Conflict: Why can Large Firms Hike Prices in an Emergency? Isabelle M. Weber Evan Wasner UMass Amherst Could the Brazilian measures of income support carried out during 2020 be considered one way towards UBI? This questions is broadly addressed in the video. 2020 Level: beginner Brazil and Basic Income & Covid Lena Lavinas and Leandro Ferreira Basic Income Earth Network BIEN In this interview, the political activist, author and lecturer Dr. Vandana Shiva explains the linkage between ecology, feminism and economics along the lines of current effects and implications of the Corona-Crisis in India and around the world. 2020 Level: beginner Ecology, feminism and economics in times of Covid-19 pandemic Dr. Vandana Shiva Cusanus Hochschule für Gesellschaftsgestaltung