25 August 2020 – The pandemic struck the world at a time when global democracy is in peril. In the MBC-KAS webinar “The State of Global Democracy”, best-selling author and leading scholar Larry Diamond gives an overview of the “democratic recession”.
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18 August – Bestselling authors Levitsky and Ziblatt say that democracies die slowly — norms and institutions are broken down, bit by bit over time. But under a global pandemic, we face a rapid drive towards authoritarianism.
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The coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic has upended plans and budgets the world over. In the Philippines, public funds are being increasingly directed toward health and social amelioration programs. So far, P245 billion has been spent for COVID-19 response efforts, with another P140 billion of planned spending under the proposed Bayanihan Act extension.