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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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There is building evidence in India that the delivery of health services suffers from an actual shortfall in trained …
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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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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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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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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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by the global financial crisis, was by far the deepest and most synchronized of the four recessions. As the epicenter of … the crisis, advanced economies felt the brunt of the recession. The subsequent expansion has been the weakest in the post …-war period in advanced economies, as many of them have struggled to overcome the legacies of the crisis. In contrast, most …
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economic effects. The financial crisis that hit the world economy in 2008-2009 has transformed the lives of many individuals … has slowed and income distribution has worsened for a number of countries. Countries hardest hit by the crisis lost more … economic and social consequences of crisis management policies and building a better capacity to analyze complex linkages and …
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To mitigate the impact of the 2008-2010 global financial crisis on vulnerable households, the Government of Latvia … the unemployed mitigate the impact of the crisis. However, relative to the depth of the crisis in Latvia, the Workplaces …
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-2009 crisis on credit availability for small firms. The paper uses data from AccessBank Azerbaijan which was affected in its … the global crisis from the fourth quarter of 2008 onwards with a combined decline in oil prices, exports, remittances, and …
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