Policy Recommendations

Inaugural Plenary
  • Governments in developing countries must increase their development budget for social protection, poverty alleviation, health, and education. 
  • Countries with limited health, social security, poverty alleviation and education budgets should invest in their human development systems. 
  • Developing countries must utilize external monetary funds/grants to improve social, health, and education infrastructure in their states. 
  • Positive impacts of COVID-19 should be considered in terms of environment and climate change in order to improve the quality of life. 
  • Effects of COVID-19 should be analysed in the long run to monitor the world’s preparedness for future consequences of a post-pandemic era. 
  • Digitalisation of economic trade routes in terms of textiles and exports should be done to overcome economic losses due to the pandemic. 
  • Pharmaceutical companies must contribute to the development of affordable COVID-19 vaccines. 
  • Governments of developing countries must explore virtual opportunities of digital transformations in social, health and economic sectors during COVID-19. 
  • Governments should explore and study the digital transformations that have taken place for increasing national economic revenues and strengthening the job market in developing countries during COVID-19. 
  • Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) must endorse cross-border e-commerce in the COVID-19 era.
  • Developing countries must introduce latest technologies and digital tools to reinforce multilateral trade routes. 
  • Governments must act upon the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Development Strategy 2025 to recover economic losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic.