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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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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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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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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 …. While data quality has a role in explaining ?excess inequality?, the more compelling explanation is that the pandemic has …
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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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COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 to analyze the effect of the electoral cycle on the size and composition of the social … sooner the next election date—the larger is the share of the social protection pandemic budget allocated to social assistance …
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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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Business training programs in low-income settings have shown limited, if any, impacts on firm revenues and profits, particularly for female entrepreneurs. This paper uses a randomized design to compare the impacts of two types of business training programs targeting women with established small...
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Interventions designed to support small and medium enterprises are popular among policy makers, given the role small and medium enterprises play in job creation around the world. Business support interventions in low- and middle-income countries are often based on the assumption that market...
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shock, in contrast, reduces the approval likelihood for SME loans in particular, while agro and micro loans are considerably …
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