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December 21, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. We in New Zealand hear so little about the tragedy unfolding in Eastern Europe, including the Baltic and Caucasian States. These countries have very cold winters, increased inequality, poverty, and popular nationalism (aka ‘populism’). But they are low on the queue for media coverage (and we don’t tend to regard anti ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Worst Countries, pre-Christmas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-worst-countries-pre-christmas/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Worst Countries, pre-Christmas">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. 2020 has been the year of the scientist, or at least the public health scientist. Science is a method, not a discipline; it includes social science, because social science does at least notionally apply the scientific method. While being about the discovery of truth, the scientific method implies that truth (with ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Science: the Good, the Ugly, the False, and the Expedient" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/keith-rankin-analysis-science-the-good-the-ugly-the-false-and-the-expedient/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Science: the Good, the Ugly, the False, and the Expedient">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. With respect to the Covid19 pandemic, our news media is biased towards the United States and Western Europe. Little do we know that the worst affected region of the world over the last month or two has been Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. This region was relatively unaffected in March and ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Eastern Europe and Canada" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/16/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-eastern-europe-and-canada/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Eastern Europe and Canada">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin – estimates, magnitudes, and new countries to be concerned about. In mid-November, I published Covid-19: Orders of Magnitude. I used Turkey as my example of a Covid19 magnitude 3 country, and South Korea as my magnitude 2 example. Today, less than a month later, Turkey is now looking like a magnitude ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Worsening Incidence in Asia, USA, and Denmark" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-worsening-incidence-in-asia-usa-and-denmark/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Worsening Incidence in Asia, USA, and Denmark">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This week, Covid19 cases in most large European countries are passing their peak following four months of exponential growth, thanks to belated new ‘lockdown’ restrictions. The exception – or laggard – is Germany, which has generally been praised as the European exemplar of how Covid19 should be managed. Germany has converged with ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Transmission and Convergence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/04/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-transmission-and-convergence/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Transmission and Convergence">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This week’s charts extend the period covered to January 2020, when almost all recorded cases were in China. Cases came into other countries in late January, including the United States in dribs and drabs, and were largely contained. All this changed with the European outbreak in mid-February. Thus, the First Wave ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis: Covid-19: Orders of Magnitude – USA vs. China, World" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/27/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-orders-of-magnitude-usa-vs-china-world/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis: Covid-19: Orders of Magnitude – USA vs. China, World">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2020
Analysis by Manqing Cheng – Doctoral Researcher in Politics and International Relations at University of Auckland. This is Manging’s first analysis for EveningReport.nz. Precis: This article takes the WHO as an example to examine the difficulties for some international organizations in playing their due roles and tackling with the security threats of international concern such ... <a title="INDEPTH: The Plight of International Organizations in Addressing Public Health Emergency of International Concern and the Implications for Global Governance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/20/indepth-the-plight-of-international-organizations-in-addressing-public-health-emergency-of-international-concern-and-the-implications-for-global-governance/" aria-label="Read more about INDEPTH: The Plight of International Organizations in Addressing Public Health Emergency of International Concern and the Implications for Global Governance">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Today I have chosen six countries, each with Covid19 case experiences over the last three weeks (days 250 to 270) that are orders of magnitude apart. A country with 1,000 daily cases per 100 million people is classed as magnitude three; that’s three zeros after the ‘one’. A country with 1 ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Orders of Magnitude" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/18/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-orders-of-magnitude/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Orders of Magnitude">Read more</a>
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November 16, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The above chart shows the world’s most economically developed countries, including three of the most developed in Eastern Europe (Slovenia, Hungary and Czechia), and one of the most developed in South America (Uruguay). In early November, the countries with the most positive results are all clustered around Austria, in central Europe. ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Test Positivity Rates are a Measure of a Country’s Covid-19 Outbreak" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/16/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-test-positivity-rates-are-a-measure-of-a-countrys-covid-19-outbreak/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Test Positivity Rates are a Measure of a Country’s Covid-19 Outbreak">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This week’s first chart shows the resurgence of Covid19 in Europe, with Eastern Europe now much more prominent than before. The only countries in the Americas to appear in this chart are the Martinique (French Caribbean), United States and Argentina. There are no countries showing from Asia (excl. the Middle East and ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Cases in the Week to 4 November" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-cases-in-the-week-to-4-november/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Cases in the Week to 4 November">Read more</a>
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October 30, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This week’s charts show three small economically prosperous European countries with similar populations; Belgium has 11.6 million people, Switzerland 8.6 million, and Sweden has 10.1 million. Belgium has the third highest per capita death toll in the world from Covid-19; only Peru and little San Marino have had more deaths. Belgium got ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Belgium, Switzerland and Sweden" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/30/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-belgium-switzerland-and-sweden/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Belgium, Switzerland and Sweden">Read more</a>
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October 20, 2020
Opinion by By Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana and Chihoko Asada Miyakawa In the fight against COVID-19, success has so far been defined by responses in Asia and the Pacific. Many countries in our region have been hailed as reference points in containing the virus. Yet if the region is to build back better, the success of immediate ... <a title="Op-Ed: Enhanced social protection an opportunity Asia Pacific must grasp" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/20/op-ed-enhanced-social-protection-an-opportunity-asia-pacific-must-grasp/" aria-label="Read more about Op-Ed: Enhanced social protection an opportunity Asia Pacific must grasp">Read more</a>
