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The Covid-19 Conundrum in the Developing World : Protecting Lives or Protecting Jobs?

Robalino, David A. - 2020

It is almost certain that the world economy is entering a recession of historic proportions; how bad things get will …

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Industrialization Under Medieval Conditions? Global Development after Covid-19

Naudé, Wim - 2021

of the medieval world. It comes at a time when innovation had already been stagnating under guild-like corporate … industrial revolution (4IR) to a premature end. Hence the post-COVID-19 world may be left with trade as the only engine for … industrialization for the foreseeable future. If the global community fails to fix the multilateral trade system, the world may start to …

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Working from Home in Developing Countries

Gottlieb, Charles - 2020

We examine workers' ability to work from home, as well as their propensity to actually work from home in developing countries. We use worker-level STEP data covering the task content of jobs to measure the ability to work from home. While the ability to WFH is low in developing countries, it...

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Does BMI Predict the Early Spatial Variation and Intensity of Covid-19 in Developing Countries? Evidence from India

Menon, Nidhiya - 2020

This paper studies BMI as a correlate of the early spatial distribution and intensity of Covid-19 across the districts of India and finds that conditional on a range of individual, household, and regional characteristics, adult BMI significantly predicts the likelihood that the district is a...

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Between a Rock and a Hard Place : Poverty and Covid-19 in Developing Countries

Bargain, Olivier - 2020

In March 2020, shelter-in-place and social-distancing policies have been enforced or recommended all over the world to …

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Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries

Alon, Titan; Doepke, Matthias; Manysheva, Kristina; … - 2022

In many high-income economies, the recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented declines in women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a specific focus on Nigeria, the most populous country in...

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Neo-Humanism and COVID-19 : Opportunities for a Socially and Environmentally Sustainable World

Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey - 2022

. Neo-humanism proposes a world in which the well-being of people comes before the well- being of markets, in which …

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Are Happier People More Compliant? Global Evidence from Three Large-Scale Surveys During Covid-19 Lockdowns

Krekel, Christian - 2020

Around the world, governments have been asking their citizens to practice physical distancing and stay at home to …

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Lives and Livelihoods : Estimates of the Global Mortality and Poverty Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Decerf, Benoit - 2020

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively...

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Labour Markets in the Time of Coronavirus : Measuring Excess

Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2020

No matter the cause, recessions are usually accompanied by some combination of job loss, hiring freezes, wage cuts or hours reductions. In a rapidly evolving economic crisis there is a need for timely information to assess labour market performance and develop strategies to address the problems...

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