https://www.scmp.com/rss/329790/feed Jayati Ghosh, a member of the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All, is professor of economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, US. She has authored and/or edited 19 books and nearly 200 scholarly articles. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Among Covid-19’s most important governance lessons, we have learned that trying to battle a pandemic without long-term investment in public health systems and responsive leadership is like attempting to put out a forest fire with a garden hosepipe. When the pandemic hit, governments had to rapidly implement test and trace systems, deliver personal protective equipment to frontline workers, and make sure that vaccines were developed and put into the arms of the population. They had to manage the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3178930/three-lessons-countries-which-performed-best-tackling-covid-19?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3178930/three-lessons-countries-which-performed-best-tackling-covid-19?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 24 May 2022 16:30:18 +0000 It’s now official: workers around the world are falling behind. The International Labour Organisation’s latest Global Wage Report finds that, excluding China, real (inflation-adjusted) wages grew at an annual rate of just 1.1 per cent in 2017, down from 1.8 per cent in 2016. That is the slowest pace since 2008.  In the advanced G20 economies, average real wages grew by a mere 0.4 per cent in 2017, compared to 1.7 per cent growth in 2015. While real wages were up by 0.7 per cent in the United... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2177551/what-china-can-teach-world-about-wage-growth?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2177551/what-china-can-teach-world-about-wage-growth?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 12 Dec 2018 06:02:18 +0000