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pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional …This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … June 2020, the pandemic (and the observed private and policy responses) has generated at least 68 million additional …
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, despite the extensive spread of the virus, the mortality toll remains highly concentrated in high-income countries. Developing … countries represent 85 percent of the global population, but only 21 percent of the pandemic's death toll. This unusual … documents the observed inequality with a new indicator that expresses severity relative to pre-pandemic patterns. It argues that …
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differences in population age structure. In this paper, COVID-19 mortality rates are calculated for each age group by dividing the … number of COVID-19 deaths by the underlying population. The resulting age-mortality curves are flatter in countries with … lower incomes. In HICs, the COVID-19 mortality rate for those ages 70-79 is 12.6 times the rate for those ages 50-59. In …
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health risks created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Using various measures of occupational risks, it first shows that immigrant …
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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 …
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How much an economy should invest in its physical infrastructure is a crucial question being asked by policy makers from developing countries where financial resources for economic development are limited. This paper aims to address this question by bringing insights from the literature that...
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Protecting healthcare workers and patients is critical to reduce the spread of the disease. In this brief we highlight three urgent actions : Distribution of infection prevention and control (IPC) policies and guidelines to all health facilities; Manufacturing and distribution of IPC supplies to...
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