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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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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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Remote-Learning, Time-Use, and Mental Health of Ecuadorian High-School Studentsduring the Covid-19 Quarantine

Asanov, Igor A. - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has closed schools around the world, forcing school systems and students to quickly attempt remote learning. A rapid response phone survey of over 1,500 high school students aged 14 to 18 in Ecuador was conducted to learn how students spend their time during the period of...

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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

yet to run its course through the age distributions of the world …

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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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Do Subsidized Health Programs in Armenia Increase Utilization Among the Poor?

Jain, Shweta - 2016

This article analyzes the extent to which the Basic Benefit Package (BBP), a subsidized health program in Armenia, increases utilization and affordability of outpatient health care among the poor. The authors find that beneficiaries of the BBP pay approximately 45 percent less in fees for doctor...

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Can Micro-Credit Support Public Health Subsidy Programs?

Augsburg, Britta - 2019

The low take-up of cost-effective and highly subsidised preventive health technologies in low-income countries remains a puzzle. One under-studied reason is that the design of subsidy schemes is such that households remain financially constrained. This paper analyses whether, and how,...

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MDG Achievements, Determinants and Resource Needs : What Has Been Learnt?

Lay, Jann - 2017

This paper reviews the effectiveness and efficiency of key policy instruments for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Based on a simple cross-country regression analysis, the paper argues that average Millennium Development Goal progress is likely tobe too slow to meet...

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Orphans and Ebola : Estimating the Secondary Impact of a Public Health Crisis

Evans, David - 2017

disproportionate mortality among the working-age population, resulting in far more mortality for parents of young children than other … health crises. This paper combines data on the age distribution of current and projected mortality from Ebola with the … fertility distribution of adults in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, to estimate the likely impact of the epidemic on the …

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