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The COVID-19 pandemic has wide implications for the socio-economic fabric worldwide. In addition to health fears, citizens are facing a host of financial uncertainties stemming from the temporary closure of businesses, schools, public facilities and quarantines, as well as instability in the...
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Fragile contexts are beginning to be hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. Most of these countries are insufficiently prepared to cope with the spread of the disease and its consequences across the multiple dimensions of fragility. The most vulnerable have difficulty in accessing hospitals and rely on...
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COVID-19 has governments at all levels operating in a context of radical uncertainty. The regional and local impact of the COVID-19 crisis is highly heterogeneous, with significant implications for crisis management and policy responses. This paper takes an in-depth look at the territorial...
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The crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic has been unlike any other the world has experienced, requiring social …
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The dramatic collapse in world trade in 2009 is, this report shows, mainly due to: the drop in demand for highly traded … tariff revenues results in a USD 2.16 drop in world exports and a USD 0.73 drop in world income. The analyses presented here …
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introduced in most world economies to tackle the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic. Based on empirical simulations, it evaluates …
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developments and the changes wrought by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. It examines the policy settings in the major … migration in Asia. It further provides important recommendations for building back better in a post-pandemic world. This …
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Digital security risk is increasing as malicious actors take advantage of the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic …. Coronavirus-related scams and phishing campaigns are on the rise. There are also cases of ransomware and distributed denial of … service (DDoS) attacks targeting hospitals. Individuals and businesses should exercise caution when they receive coronavirus …
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