In 2016, the Government of India proposed negotiations on an agreement to facilitate trade in services to complement … plurilateral talks launched in 2017 on various policy areas encompass areas that are very relevant from a services trade … trade facilitation objectives by identifying good regulatory practices. Although elements relevant to services trade …

This paper studies the trade effects of Covid-19 using monthly disaggregated trade data for 28 countries and multiple … trading partners from the beginning of the pandemic to June 2020. Regression results based on a sector-level gravity model … show that the negative trade effects induced by Covid-19 shocks varied widely across sectors. Sectors more amenable to …

perspectives on the impacts. Most banks claim adverse effects on financial products, services, and markets; regulators broadly …

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted economic activity in India. Adjusting policies to contain trans- mission while … in India. Energy consumption is compared with the predictions of a consumption model that explains 90 percent of the …

activity in India. Following a uniform national lockdown, the Government of India classified all districts into three zones … this analysis, pandemic-era, district-level data from a range of novel sources are combined - monthly nighttime lights from … data on income and consumption, supplemented with data from the Indian Census and the Reserve Bank of India. The analysis …

The size of the economic shocks triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of the associated non … over the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis relies on high-frequency proxies, such as daily electricity … consumption, nitrogen dioxide emission, and mobility records, to trace the economic disruptions caused by the pandemic, and …

pandemic and provides evidence on the effects of different reopening trajectories and their timing and speed on economic … compared with the countries that rushed into lifting the restrictive measures before the pandemic was under control. Postponing … lifting the restrictions until after the pandemic's peak was reached has a positive impact on economic activity. Governance …

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has halted economic activity worldwide, hurting firms and pushing them toward … pandemic, while using credit to remain alive until the crisis subdues. Fourth, the existing legal and regulatory infrastructure … is ill-equipped to deal with an exogenous systemic shock such as this pandemic. Financial sector policies can help …

This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the … initial shock due to the pandemic under the assumption that products that are more labor intensive in production are more … pandemic, the global export supply of food could decrease between 6 and 20 percent and global prices increase between 2 and 6 …