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A Prime Minister Tries to Storm-Proof Her Island’s Finances – “We wanted to come up with something that was conducive to bolstering resilience to rising climatic risks,” Espinosa says. “Adverse-weather clauses provide vulnerable sovereign debtors with a degree of flexibility by creating built-in buffers that can help them absorb some of the financial impact.”

Stakeholder capitalism is urgently needed – and the COVID-19 crisis shows us why – “What’s interesting about this crisis is it’s really revealed so many problems that we have in our current way of doing capitalism. There’s different ways to do capitalism.”

Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index: Rich sheltered, poor shafted amid virus – “47% of respondents designated as coming from the upper socioeconomic status and 45% of those from the upper-middle status said their emotional well-being declined. That was the case for just 34% of the lower and lower-middle groups and 36% of the middle group.”

Post Corona: Higher Ed “SARS was huge for e-commerce in Asia, and it helped Alibaba break out into the consumer space. COVID-19 could be to education in the United States what SARS was to e-commerce in Asia.”

Early Data Shows African Americans Have Contracted and Died of Coronavirus at an Alarming Rate – “When COVID-19 passes and we see the losses … it will be deeply tied to the story of post-World War II policies that left communities marginalized,” Sprague said. “Its impact is going to be tied to our history and legacy of racial inequities. It’s going to be tied to the fact that we live in two very different worlds.”