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Public Spending on Health Care and the Poor
Gupta, Sanjeev; Verhoeven, Marijn; Tiongson, Erwin R. - 2021
This paper estimates the impact of public spending on the poor`s health status in over 70 countries. It provides evidence that the poor have significantly worse health status than the rich and that they are more favorably affected by public spending on health care. An important new result is...
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Social Spending in Mexico : Needs, Priorities and Reforms
Ahmed Hannan, Swarnali; Cuesta Aguirre, Juan Pablo; … - 2022
Poverty in Mexico was high before the COVID-19 pandemic and has been exacerbated by the pandemic, with significant variation across states. Education losses from the pandemic are likely to be large and worsen pre-existing disparities; unless mitigated soon, they could contribute to heightened...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013300534
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Exiting from Lockdowns : Early Evidence from Reopenings in Europe
Franks, Jeffrey R.; Gruss, Bertrand; Mulas Granados, Carlos - 2021
economies albeit using diverse strategies. This paper introduces a novel daily database of sectoral reopening measures in Europe …
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Monetary Policy and COVID-19
Brzoza-Brzezina, Michal; Kolasa, Marcin; Makarski, Krzysztof - 2022
We study the macroeconomic effects of the COVID-19 epidemic in a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium setup with nominal rigidities. We evaluate various containment policies and show that they allow to dramatically reduce the welfare cost of the disease. Then we investigate the role that...
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Will the Economic Impact of COVID-19 Persist? Prognosis from 21st Century Pandemics
Emmerling, Johannes; Furceri, Davide; Líbano Monteiro, … - 2022
COVID-19 has had a disruptive economic impact in 2020, but how long its impact will persist remains unclear. We offer a prognosis based on an analysis of the effects of five previous major epidemics in this century. We find that these pandemics led to significant and persistent reductions in...
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Recoveries after Pandemics : The Role of Policies and Structural Features
Cuesta Aguirre, Juan Pablo; Ahmed Hannan, Swarnali - 2022
To shed light on the possible scarring effects from Covid-19, this paper studies the economic effects of five past pandemics using local projections on a sample of fifty-five countries over 1990-2019. The findings reveal that pandemics have detrimental medium-term effects on output,...
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Europe : A Survey of Gender Budgeting Efforts
Quinn, Sheila - 2016
a time of continued fiscal austerity in Europe, gender budgeting can help inform fiscal policies to ensure gender …
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Regional Disparities in Europe
Balakrishnan, Ravi; Ebeke, Christian; Firat, Melih; … - 2022
pandemic might accelerate the automation of jobs across Europe, something which often happens following recessions. While …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014237478
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Cars in Europe : Supply Chains and Spillovers During COVID-19 Times
Boranova, Vizhdan; Huidrom, Raju; Ozturk, Ezgi O.; … - 2022
the COVID-19 pandemic on the auto sector and aggregate activity in Europe. Our results suggest that these labor supply … shocks would have a significant adverse impact on the major auto producers in Europe, with one-third of the decline in the …
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The 2020-2022 Inflation Surge Across Europe : A Phillips-Curve-Based Dissection
Baba, Chikako; Duval, Romain; Lan, Ting; Topalova, Petia B. - 2023
In 2021-22, inflation in Europe soared to multidecade highs, consistently exceeding policymakers’ forecasts and … surprising with its wide cross-country dispersion. This paper analyzes the key drivers of the inflation surge in Europe and its … variation across countries. The analysis highlights significant differences in Phillips curve parameters across Europe …
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