accurately nowcast recovery paths following a large economic shock such as a global pandemic. …

stimulus aid packages to support households. The extent to which these packages mitigated the pandemic's adverse effects on …. Experience of longer lockdowns reduced individuals' satisfaction with provincial government's response to the pandemic. On the … pandemic by 3.6 and 10.3 percentage points respectively. …

on-going pandemic and its countermeasures have led to varying physical, psychological, and emotional experiences, shaping … correlates with the individual experiences of the pandemic. The analysis is based on a new global survey-'Life with Corona … effects of the pandemic go well beyond immediate health concerns, leading to important normative changes that are likely to …

relationships in the cross-country data, drawing on measures of the state, COVID's health impact, and pandemic policy response. In … year of the COVID-19 pandemic, what has stood out in simple global snapshots is that wealthier countries with stronger … have been praised for more effective pandemic responses. What explains this seeming puzzle? We re-consider these …

We examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Kenya's foreign trade using quarterly trade data for the period 2019 …, particularly travel and transport services, were adversely affected. Heterogeneous effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on exports are … pandemic effects. Increased diversification of exports and markets, coupled with increased value addition and deepening of …

problematizes the received wisdom of greater state capacity in mitigating the severity of the pandemic. Based on a case study of … West Bengal, a subnational state of India, it shows that measures of state capacity do not map onto the pandemic response … significant variation during the pandemic response. While the state was constrained by fiscal and infrastructural limitations in …

Government effectiveness has played an important role in tackling the crisis caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19 …) pandemic. This paper discusses the different aspects of government effectiveness in explaining the variation in the COVID-19 … with lower confirmed rates. For the impact of the level of participation, we find that provinces that have higher quality …

This paper analyses the distributional effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and related tax-benefit measures in 2020 in a … estimate the impact of the crisis on disposable incomes, how effects vary across the income distribution, and in how far tax …-benefit policies stabilized earnings losses. We then evaluate the impact on income-based poverty and inequality and the contribution of …

manipulation of data for political ends. The ruling party's claim that the state managed the COVID pandemic brilliantly seems more …