A report by Derasat in collaboration with UNDP that examines and describes the effect of the Covid-19 confinement on people’s lives and their physical and mental well-being.
Economics
One of the lessons learned a year after the start of COVID-19 is that in the fight against future pandemics, we may have to choose between the suppression of the disease and the protection of people’s civil liberties.
A report that presents the major issues related to the impact of Covid-19 on Bahrain’s private sector, and presents a series of recommendations targeting businesses and policymakers.
As the slew of vaccines emerging in record time indicates, there is much truth to the maxim “necessity is the mother of all invention.” An article that explores how lockdowns can boost innovation.
An article that explores some recent research regarding the underrepresentation of women in leadership positions in the Gulf, and stresses the importance of upgrading the quality of data gathered.
Despite the enormous increase in the number of Covid-19 deaths, multiple outlets have reported that this pandemic has failed to produce a comparable emotional response to tragedies on a smaller scale.
Trump and Biden offer different economic visions for the US, but, as Dr. Omar Al-Ubaydli discusses, whoever wins will be constrained by the US political system’s checks and balances
An article that features the important lessons Gulf science can learn from the 2020 economics Nobel prize.
In Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, female citizens have kept their jobs amid the coronavirus at higher rates than in Western countries. This reflects the unique labor market structures of the Gulf countries.
Derasat’s research fellow, Dr. Fatima Al Sebaie co-authored a policy brief titled “Assessing The Impact Of Stablecoins On The International Monetary System: G20 And IMF To Study The Impact Of Facebook’s Libra Project”.