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Finance Vaccine Equity : Funding for Day-Zero of the Next Pandemic
Agarwal, Ruchir; Reed, Tristan - 2022
A lack of timely financing for purchases of vaccines and other health products impeded the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on analysis of contract signature and delivery dates in COVID-19 vaccine advance purchase agreements, this paper finds that 60-75 percent of the delay in...
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Equitable Access to Vaccines : Myth or Reality?
Hakobyan, Shushanik; Rawlings, Henry; Yao, Jiaxiong - 2022
Fighting the COVID-19 pandemic required vaccinations; however, ending it requires vaccination equality. The progress in … vaccinations varies greatly across countries, with low- and middle-income countries having much lower vaccination rates than … challenges and vaccine hesitancy. This paper quantifies the importance of various factors in driving vaccination rates across …
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The Effects of COVID-19 Vaccines on Economic Activity
Deb, Pragyan; Furceri, Davide; Jiménez, Daniel; … - 2022
surprises in vaccines administered, we find that an unexpected increase in vaccination per capita is associated with a … benefits being larger when vaccination rates are higher. Country-specific conditions play an important role, with lower …
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Determinants of COVID-19 Vaccine Rollouts and Their Effects on Health Outcomes
Deb, Pragyan; Furceri, Davide; Jiménez, Daniel; … - 2022
’s health infrastructure, and vaccine acceptance are significant determinants of the speed of vaccination rollouts; (ii) vaccine …
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Who Doesn't Want to Be Vaccinated? Determinants of Vaccine Hesitancy During COVID-19
Dabla-Norris, Era; Khan, Hibah; Lima, Frederico; … - 2022
Quick vaccine rollouts are crucial for a strong economic recovery, but vaccine hesitancy could prolong the pandemic and the need for social distancing and lockdowns. We use individual-level data from nationally representative surveys developed by YouGov and Imperial College London to empirically...
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Intellectual Property Rights and International R&D Competition
Scandizzo, Stefania - 2021
participation in the World Trade Organization, or, more controversially, some form of bilateral punishment, may be used …
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Technological and Economic Decoupling in the Cyber Era
Garcia-Macia, Daniel; Goyal, Rishi - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift toward digital services. Meanwhile, the race for technological and economic leadership has heated up, with risks of decoupling that could set back trade and growth and hinder the recovery from the worst global recession since the Great Depression....
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R&D, Innovation, and Economic Growth : An Empirical Analysis
Ulku, Hulya - 2006
This paper investigates the main postulations of the Ramp;D based growth models that innovation is created in the Ramp;D sectors and it enables sustainable economic growth, provided that there are constant returns to innovation in terms of Ramp;D. The analysis employs various panel data...
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E-Commerce During COVID : Stylized Facts from 47 Economies
Alcedo, Joel; Cavallo, Alberto; Dwyer, Bricklin; … - 2022
We study e-commerce across 47 economies and 26 industries during the COVID-19 pandemic using aggregated and anonymized transaction-level data from Mastercard, scaled to represent total consumer spending. The share of online transactions in total consumption increased more in economies with...
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Trade and the COVID-19 Pandemic : Lessons from French Firms
Brussevich, Mariya; Papageorgiou, Chris; Wibaux, Pauline - 2022
This paper uses granular customs data from France to investigate propagation of the COVID-19 shock along the supply chains in 2020. It quantifies the effect of the COVID-19 shock on trade adjustment and identifies mitigating and amplifying factors contributing to French firms’ heterogeneous...
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