The COVID-19 pandemic led many emerging market central banks to adopt, for the first time, unconventional policies in …

World trade contracted dramatically during the global economic crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Disruptions in …

another important aspect of the pandemic: its fallout on medium-term potential output through scarring. Taking Australia and … New Zealand as examples, we show that the pandemic will likely have a large and persistent impact on potential output … structural policy agenda to counter the pandemic's adverse effects on medium-term potential output will be important to support …

Using high-frequency proxies for economic activity over a large sample of countries, we show that the economic crisis … during the first seven months of the COVID-19 pandemic was only partly due to government lockdowns. Economic activity also …

wake of the COVID-19 pandemic shock. Using a sample of nearly 700 firms from eleven countries in MENAP, we assess the non …. Our findings suggest that the health crisis has exacerbated vulnerabilities in the corporate sector, though the effects … are heterogenous across the region. Small firms, which entered the pandemic in a more vulnerable position, would remain …

each of the years 2004-5 through the pandemic year 2020-21. These estimates include, for the first time, the effect of in …-kind food subsides on poverty and inequality. Extreme poverty was as low as 0.8 percent in the pre-pandemic year 2019, and food … transfers were instrumental in ensuring that it remained at that low level in pandemic year 2020. Post-food subsidy inequality …