If you want a bailout in Europe, don’t use tax havens

If you want a bailout in Europe, don’t use tax havens: A growing number of European governments are insisting there won't be any emergency cash during the coronavirus pandemic for businesses registered in tax havens like Panama and the Cayman Islands.

Blacklist or Whitewash? An objective blacklist, combined with powerful countermeasures, could go a long way towards ending the era of tax havens.

Confused by COVID-19 research?

Coronaprofile: Confused by COVID-19 research? A Birmingham scientist helps translate for patients: Shakila Thangaratinam tries to make sense of it all for pregnant women and their doctors – a key step to connect science with society

COVID-19 from the Margins: What We Have Learned So Far

[BigDataSur-COVID] COVID-19 from the Margins: What We Have Learned So Far: Since the World Health Organisation declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a pandemic on 11 March 2020, narratives of the virus outbreak centred on counting and measuring have became dominant in public discourse. Enumerating and comparing cases and locations, victims or the progressive occupancy of intensive care units, policymakers and experts alike have turned data into the condition of existence of the first pandemic of the datafied society. However, many communities at the margins—from workers in the informal economy to low-income countries to victims of domestic violence—were left in the dark.

A guide to R — the pandemic’s misunderstood metric

A guide to R — the pandemic’s misunderstood metric: What the reproduction number can and can’t tell us about managing COVID-19.

Covid-19 Survival Calculator

COVID-19 Sobrevivência

A 'playbook' for publishers amid pandemic: Here are the 9 challenges we addressed:
Challenge 1: How long to get revenues back on track?
Challenge 2: Who was best prepared for the crisis?
Challenge 3: How can publishers get advertisers back?
Challenge 4: Is the not-for-profit model the way to secure the future of local and public-service journalism?
Challenge 5: Reader Revenue – How to onboard and keep paying subscribers?
Challenge 6: COVID-19 has accelerated the digital transition – how to keep that momentum going?
Challenge 7: What we learned from stumbling into the remote newsroom?
Challenge 8: How to build on the trust gained during the crisis and keep the boosted audience?
Challenge 9: Are publishers prepared for what's next?

Leading German Economist: “The Virus Must Be Contained Before the Economy Can Recover”: Clemens Fuest, one of Germany’s top economists, discusses the impact of the coronavirus on governments and business. He says bankruptcies are inevitable and that the effects of the crisis will be with us for a long time to come.