Greece went into recession in 2009, after a decade of flourishing economic growth fluctuating annually around 4 percent; over the same period the average growth for the Eu-27 was just about 2 percent. The economic downturn had a series of adverse effects on the economy and the health sector....

OBJECTIVE: This chapter assesses the extent to which previous economic and financial crises had a negative impact on health outcomes and health financing. In addition, we review evidence related to the effectiveness of different policy measures undertaken in past crises to protect access to...

Aside from various economic crises faced by different countries are different time , the countries, and sometimes the world as a whole, have faced serious pandemics such as Spanish Flu, Ebola, bubonic plague and the recent COVID 19, among others. In order to boost the economy, the government...

This paper investigates how persistent changes in trust caused by the Great Recession have affected how governments and citizens across Europe responded to the next global crisis: the COVID-19 pandemic. We show that increases in individualism and mistrust towards institutions caused by...

The US economy accounts for ¼ of the world's GDP. The dream development of USA was busted when the world major financial giants like Lehman Brothers, Bear Sterns, AIG, Merill Lynch etc. saw the unprecedented collapse of financial giants. The large Banks in US according to economists and...

Since the end of the Great Recession, growth in health care spending has declined to historically low levels. There is disagreement over whether this decline was caused by falling incomes during the Great Recession (and therefore is likely to reverse once the recovery is complete) or whether the...