Using a unique firm-level data set from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and India collected from November 2020 to…

The impact of COVID-19 on the Russian economy was undoubtedly enormous, clearly, negatively. The GDP of the Russian economy shrank 3% in…

Given poor healthcare conditions in the country, Nepal has suffered hugely from the second wave of Covid-19. As the second wave hit…

The People’s Republic of China (the PRC) has made laudable achievements in poverty reduction and completed the arduous task of…

There was a time when the Republic of Korea (ROK) became the second highest in the world for the number of daily confirmed cases of the…

For almost two years, more than 200 million people worldwide have been infected with COVID-19 resulting in more than 4.5 million deaths…

Malaysia’s National Immunization Programme (NIP) chose Pfizer, AstraZeneca (AZ) and Sinovac as its vaccine portfolio. At the outset,…

This policy brief assesses COVID-19’s impact on travel and tourism in Asia and the Pacific and outlines a set of expert-reviewed policy…

In order to keep abreast of emerging issues at the National/International and local level, the SDPI brings out a Bi-weekly E-Newsletter…

The full re-opening of land borders between Johor and Singapore is critical for Johor’s recovery and is in the interest of both…