LSE COVID-19 blog

From research to global policy response

LSE COVID-19 blog

From research to global policy response

Latest posts

Emerging economies

Poorer countries can't wait until 2022. The WTO should suspend COVID vaccine patents now

November 23rd, 2020

Stop preserving doomed jobs and bring in Universal Basic Income

November 20th, 2020

Environmental sustainability and climate change

The UK is fracturing. Unless the ‘green industrial revolution’ is shared around, that may accelerate

November 18th, 2020

No partisan divide in willingness to wear masks in the UK

November 18th, 2020

Welfare and public policy trade-offs

In Germany, school holidays accounted for up to half of the increase in COVID infections over the summer

November 17th, 2020

Timothy Besley and Nicholas Stern | Values, realities and choices: developing a lasting COVID strategy

November 10th, 2020

Denied jobs and schooling, ‘Generation COVID’ faces a struggle to catch up

October 27th, 2020

Restructuring business, trade and the future of work

Stop preserving doomed jobs and bring in Universal Basic Income

November 20th, 2020

Environmental sustainability and climate change

The UK is fracturing. Unless the ‘green industrial revolution’ is shared around, that may accelerate

November 18th, 2020

Making furlough portable would encourage people to move into new jobs

November 5th, 2020

Health and social care

Emerging economies

Poorer countries can’t wait until 2022. The WTO should suspend COVID vaccine patents now

November 23rd, 2020

What can health services learn from the COVID-19 catastrophe? A new platform for sharing insights

November 16th, 2020

COVID and care: how a ‘stacked’ care system could help places like Hackney

October 29th, 2020

Inequality and social infrastructure

How lockdowns have reversed traditional gender roles in some UK households – and further entrenched them in others

November 12th, 2020

Inequality and social infrastructure

Are we all in this together? Working class women are carrying the work burden of the pandemic

November 12th, 2020

As private renters fall into arrears, we can expect a slow burn of evictions

November 11th, 2020

Governance and state capacity

No partisan divide in willingness to wear masks in the UK

November 18th, 2020

Democracy and rights

‘For anyone working in restaurants, hotels, retail, this is the Great Depression’ – Fareed Zakaria

November 16th, 2020

Timothy Besley and Nicholas Stern | Values, realities and choices: developing a lasting COVID strategy

November 10th, 2020

The future of cities

As private renters fall into arrears, we can expect a slow burn of evictions

November 11th, 2020

Not pedestrian enough: the need for walking infrastructure in the COVID era

November 5th, 2020

How we learned to stop counting cases and worry about network effects instead

November 3rd, 2020