A newly published special issue of the journal Feminist Economics focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic includes 26 articles on a wide range of issues, with authors from all regions of the globe. PERI economists Nancy Folbre, Katherine Moos, Lenore Palladino and James Heintz are among the contributors to this volume. Their topics include ‘Workers and Care Penalties in the U.S,’ ‘Coronavirus Fiscal Policy in the U.S: Lessons from Feminist Political Economy,’ “Public Investment in Home Healthcare During the Pandemic: A Win-Win Strategy,’ and ‘Don’t Let Another Crisis Go to Waste: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Imperative for a Paradigm Shift.’

PERI researchers led by Michael Ash and James Boyce have produced updated versions of the Greenhouse 100 and Toxic 100 Indexes. The Greenhouse 100 ranks U.S. corporations by their emissions responsible for global climate change. The Toxic 100 ranks U.S. industrial polluters. It also includes Environmental Justice indicators to assess impacts on low-income people and minorities. Michael Ash says that “The Toxic 100 and Greenhouse 100 inform communities which large corporations release toxic and climate-altering pollutants into our atmosphere. People have a right to know about toxic hazards to which they are exposed.”

Capital flight constitutes a major constraint to Africa’s efforts to fill the large and growing financing gaps that hold back its progress towards achieving sustainable development goals. The mounting evidence on the unrecorded outflows of capital from Africa has spurred calls for strategies to curb this financial hemorrhage.  In five working papers, PERI researchers James Boyce and Leonce Ndikumana, along with five other contributing authors, provide in-depth analyses on the causes and consequences of capital flight from Africa. The papers include case studies on Angola, Ivory Coast, and South Africa, as well as detailed proposals for bringing African capital flight under control.