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Covid-19 and food protectionism : the impact of the pandemic and export restrictions on world food markets
Espitia, Alvaro; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - 2020
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 affected through workers' morbidity and containment...
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COVID-19 and food security in Ethiopia : do social protection programs protect?
Abay, Kibrom A.; Berhane, Guush; Hoddinott, John; … - 2020
This paper assesses the impact of Ethiopia's flagship social protection program, the Productive Safety Net Program on the adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the food and nutrition security of households, mothers, and children. The analysis uses pre-pandemic, in-person household survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012434328
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Implications of cheap oil for emerging markets
Kabundi, Alain; Ohnsorge, Franziska - 2020
The COVID-19-triggered collapse in oil prices in March and April 2020 was the seventh, and by far the most severe, in a series of such collapses since 1970. This paper, first, compares this most recent collapse and its drivers with previous ones in an event study. It finds that it was associated...
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Adding fuel to the fire : cheap oil during the COVID-19 pandemic
Wheeler, Collette Mari; Baffes, John; Kabundi, Alain; … - 2020
The outbreak of COVID-19 and the wide-ranging measures needed to slow its advance triggered an unprecedented collapse in oil demand, a surge in oil inventories, and a record one-month decline in oil prices in March 2020. This paper examines the likely implications of the 2020 oil price plunge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257329
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Banking sector performance during the COVID-19 crisis
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Pedraza, Alvaro; Ruiz-Ortega, Claudia - 2020
This paper analyzes bank stock prices around the world to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the banking sector. Using a global database of policy responses during the crisis, the paper also examines the role of financial sector policy announcements on the performance of bank stocks....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297394
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Do immigrants push natives towards safer jobs? : exposure to COVID-19 in the European Union
Bossavie, Laurent; Garrote Sanchez, Daniel; Makovec, Mattia - 2020
This paper assesses the impact of immigration to Western Europe on the exposure of native-born workers to economic and health risks created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Using various measures of occupational risks, it first shows that immigrant workers, especially those coming from lower-income...
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Preschool education in Brazil : does public supply crowd out private enrollment?
Bastos, Paulo; Straume, Odd Rune - 2016
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Secondary schools and teenage childbearing : evidence from the school expansion in Brazilian municipalities
Koppensteiner, Martin; Matheson, Jesse - 2020
This article investigates the effect increasing secondary education opportunities has on teenage fertility in Brazil … between 1997 and 2009, the analysis shows an important role of secondary school availability on underage fertility. An … increase of one school per 100 females reduces a cohort's teenage birthrate by between 0.250 and 0.563 births per 100, or a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388752
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Socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 in four African countries
Josephson, Anna; Kilic, Talip; Michler, Jeffrey D. - 2020
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the attempts to limit its spread have resulted in profound economic impacts … from a pre-COVID-19 rate of 96 percent to just 17 percent among households with school-age children. These findings can …
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The Coronavirus pandemic and food security : evidence from West Africa
Adjognon, Guigonan Serge; Bloem, Jeffrey R.; Sanoh, Aly - 2020
This paper documents some of the first estimates of the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on food security in a low …
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