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The Multi-Level Marketing Pandemic
Bradley, Christopher G.; Oates, Hannah - 2021
Among the many societal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a sharp rise in the activities of multi-level marketing companies (MLMs). MLMs are business enterprises in which participants seek not only to sell products to friends, family, and social media contacts, but also to recruit them...
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Mapping a Causal Scheme of Indicators in the COVID-19 Crisis
Siems, Mathias - 2021
The COVID-19 crisis has been accompanied by an extensive use of indicators, such as those related to COVID infections and deaths but also a good number of COVID policy indicators. This paper discusses these indicators from the perspective of a legal scholar with an interest (and some expertise)...
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Home Quarantine Guidelines : COVID 19 Panorama
Rahaman, Md. Saidur - 2020
At present coronavirus disease (COVID-19), an outbreak, calls for an emergency concern for public health … coronavirus proceeds to advance and continuously evolve to all of the countries in the world. Affected countries are trying to … ensuring early detection. With coronavirus (COVID-19) burning news, are beginning to toss around words “quarantine” with an …
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Decline in mobility : public transport in Poland in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic
Wielechowski, Michał; Czech, Katarzyna; Grzęda, Łukasz - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 4/78, pp. 1-24
The aim of the paper is to assess changes in mobility in public transport in Poland, as a consequence of the development of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyse the problem from the country and regional (voivodeships) perspective. The data come from Google COVID19 Community Mobility Reports, the...
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International Aviation Law and Pandemic
Ravich, Timothy - 2023
Commercial airplanes are vectors of infectious disease, advancing, if not sparking, global epidemics and potentially pandemics by exporting pathogens from endemic areas of the world to non-endemic places. For example, according to the global scientific community, the Zika virus was introduced to...
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Financial Stability Amidst the Pandemic Crisis : On Top of the Wave
Gortsos, Christos; Ringe, Wolf-Georg; Annunziata, Filippo; … - 2021
The pandemic crisis, which broke out in early 2020, is still affecting human lives and economic activity around the globe, causing unprecedented transformations which were not foreseen just before its onset. The European Union, its citizens and the financial and non-financial firms active...
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Federalism and Polycentric Government in a Pandemic
Perez, Victoria - 2020
Networks of overlapping local governments are the front line of governmental responses to pandemics. Local governments, both general purpose (municipalities, counties, etc.) and special districts (school, fire, police, hospital, etc.), implement state and federal directives while acting as a...
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The TRIPS Agreement Article 73 Security Exceptions and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Abbott, Frederick M. - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused Governments to contemplate measures to override patents and other intellectual property rights (IPRs) in order to facilitate production and distribution of vaccines, treatments, diagnostics and medical devices. This paper discusses whether the COVID-19 pandemic...
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The CoViD-19 pandemic and mental health: disentangling crucial channels
Siflinger, Bettina; Paffenholz, Michaela; Seitz, Sebastian - 2021
Since the start of the CoViD-19 pandemic, a major source of concern has been its effect on mental health. Using pre-pandemic information and five customized questionnaires in the Dutch LISS panel, we investigate how mental health in the working population has evolved along with the most...
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Where did it hit harder? : The geography of excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic
Diaz Ramirez, Marcos - 2021
This paper analyses the uneven geography of the COVID-19 health impact in OECD and European countries. It first describes the increase in all-cause mortality – i.e. excess mortality – across subnational regions between January and December 2020. Subsequently, it investigates the regional...
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