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The paper uses Google mobility data to identify the determinants of social distancing during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. The findings for the United States indicate that much of the decrease in mobility is voluntary, driven by the number of COVID-19 cases and proxying for greater awareness of...
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The size of the economic shocks triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of the associated non-pharmaceutical interventions have not been fully assessed, because the official economic indicators have not been published. This paper provides estimates of the economic impacts of the...
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COVID-19 can be described as a heat-seeking missile speeding toward the most vulnerable in society. That metaphor applies not just to the vulnerable in the rich world; the vulnerable in the rest of the world are not more immune. Yet, despite the extensive spread of the virus, the mortality toll...
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beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, documenting how countries used trade policy instruments in response to the health crisis on …
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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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To aid national and international efforts to support countries in enhancing their pandemic preparedness in the face of COVID-19, this paper draws from the World Bank's Service Delivery Indicator surveys to highlight key aspects of health service preparedness in Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania....
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The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has halted economic activity worldwide, hurting firms and pushing them toward …, centered along four main points. First, the economic crisis triggered by the spread of the virus is radically different from … pandemic, while using credit to remain alive until the crisis subdues. Fourth, the existing legal and regulatory infrastructure …
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, suggesting that the poverty consequences of the crisis are of paramount importance. Second, this ratio declines systematically …
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