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The Sooner, the Better : The Early Economic Impact of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2020
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 and Food Protectionism : The Impact of the Pandemic and Export Restrictions on World Food Markets
Espitia, Alvaro - 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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Financing Firms in Hibernation During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Didier, Tatiana - 2020
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has halted economic activity worldwide, hurting firms and pushing them toward …
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Covid-19 Mortality in Rich and Poor Countries : A Tale of Two Pandemics?
Schellekens, Philip - 2020
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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Tourism Sector in Panama : Regional Economic Impacts and the Potential to Benefit the Poor
Klytchnikova, Irina - 2017
Tourism is one of Latin America's fastest growing industries but the impact of tourism on the poor and the effects on … lagging regions are under debate. Many studies have evaluated the growth impacts of the tourism sector but few have analyzed … the impact of tourism on the economy and poverty at the subnational level in developing countries. As a country marked by …
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Orphans and Ebola : Estimating the Secondary Impact of a Public Health Crisis
Evans, David - 2017
fertility distribution of adults in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, to estimate the likely impact of the epidemic on the … by the Ebola epidemic are significant, but represent a small fraction (1.4 percent) of the existing orphan burden in the …
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Determinants of Social Distancing and Economic Activity During COVID-19 : A Global View
Maloney, William F. - 2020
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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Electoral Cycles and Public Spending during the Pandemic
Lokshin, Michael; Rodriguez-Ferrari, Aylén; Torre, Iván - 2022
This paper uses a newly assembled data set on various types of social protection spending in 154 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 to analyze the effect of the electoral cycle on the size and composition of the social protection stimulus budget. The analysis shows that the...
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Lost Wages : The COVID-19 Cost of School Closures
Psacharopoulos, George - 2020
Social distancing requirements associated with COVID-19 (coronavirus) have led to school closures. In mid-April, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834026
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The Potential Impact of COVID-19 on GDP and Trade : A Preliminary Assessment
Maliszewska, Maryla - 2020
The virus that triggered a localized shock in China is now delivering a significant global shock. This study simulates the potential impact of COVID-19 on gross domestic product and trade, using a standard global computable general equilibrium model. It models the shock as underutilization of...
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