initial shock due to the pandemic under the assumption that products that are more labor intensive in production are more … domestic food markets could magnify the initial shock. The analysis shows that, in the quarter following the outbreak of the … percent on average. Escalating export restrictions would multiply the initial shock by a factor of 3, with world food prices …

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has halted economic activity worldwide, hurting firms and pushing them toward … is ill-equipped to deal with an exogenous systemic shock such as this pandemic. Financial sector policies can help …

unemployment, but high levels of informal jobs, low-growth, and almost stagnant real wages. In this context, the crisis destroyed a … wide number of formal jobs, and even informal, increasing the unemployment rates to pre-crisis levels. Manufacturing was …

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 …