Reading time: 3 minutes An example of virtuosity for the city, between environmental issues and the pandemic Milan’s M4 – known as “the Blue” – is the new underground in construction that will connect [ … ]
Tag: pandemic
State of Emergency
Reading time: 5 minutes The role of institutions across Europe was redefined during the pandemic. As the world moves towards a Covid-free reality, we must ask ourselves, is this the start of a new [ … ]
COVID-19: the painful story of rise in racism
Reading time: 6 minutes After a year in quarantines and lockdowns, the threats posed by COVID-19 seem to be affecting not only the health of the people. With the outbreak of the pandemic there [ … ]
Political (in)effectiveness in Latin America
Reading time: 5 minutes How the pandemic has uncovered Latin America’s biggest operational risks: political fragmentation, corruption and ineffective policy formulation. A study published by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) recently evidenced the operational [ … ]
Activism & Change: Interview with Alessandro Montesi, Head of Activism at Amnesty International
Reading time: 5 minutes Alessandro Montesi is Head of Activism at Amnesty International and a Bocconi graduate of the Master in Science Degree in Economics and Social Sciences. During his study years he began [ … ]
The demographic crisis due to covid-19 and its effects on the pension system
Reading time: 8 minutes Drop in births after the spread of Covid-19 Since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, a remarkable downward trend in births has been registered all over the world, [ … ]
Finding Facts Among Fiction: Guest Speakers Reflect on Relationship Between Information and the Pandemic at Tra i Leoni event
Reading time: 3 minutes Professor Alberto Mantovani and journalist Mariangela Pira discuss with Bocconi students on how the scientific and journalistic communities reacted to the pandemic and on managing misinformation. What was the impact [ … ]
A year of learning lost
Reading time: 3 minutes The global health emergency has turned into crises in many other fields, particularly in education. Staggering reports by the World Bank and the OECD project serious economic losses in terms [ … ]
Networking to Close the Social Distance
Reading time: 3 minutes COVID-19 has transformed the way humans interact. Instead of meeting up after lectures or catching up at restaurants, we have increasingly turned to online platforms as an alternative to offline [ … ]
Battling covid “kiwi-style” – New Zealand’s road to eradicating COVID-19
Reading time: 3 minutes Countries around the globe reacted to the covid-meltdown in various manners and with different tactics but which model was the most successful and why? The answer is, it would seem, [ … ]