"The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a massive spike in concerns and uncertainties and raised challenges in assessment of the macroeconomic and microeconomic impacts, so this book assesses the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, covering macroeconomic and microeconomic impacts of COVID-19."

Several developing economies witnessed a large number of systemic financial and currency crises since the 1980s which resulted in severe economic, social, and political problems. The devastating impact of the 1982 and 1994-95 Mexican crises, the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, the 1998 Russian...

This paper proposes a macro-prudential financial soundness analysis that can be used by most developing and transformation countries with or without crisis experience as well as by developed countries with limited data. The objective is to detect economic and financial sector vulnerability,...