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Culture can be a powerful driver for development, with broad social, economic and environmental impacts. UNESCO acknowledged the role of culture as an enabler and a driver of sustainable development. There are undisputable effects of culture on community building, social cohesion and empowering...
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With rising spending during the COVID-19 pandemic, the state has become involved in decision-making in areas where it has held back for years. In the case of housing the state's role has declined sharply since 1989, and the expectation that housing is the private responsibility of each...
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The rapid global spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 has changed the world. While a massive effort is under way to …
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The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound impact on the restaurant industry in Alabama. This qualitative study examines how Alabama restaurants demonstrated resilience and adaptability across three distinct phases of the pandemic, including the period of unrestricted activities, offering a new...
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expenditure on pandemic preparedness, to explain the reasons behind country variations in containing crises such as Coronavirus …
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-related hospitalization and death rates. Our analysis exploits the fact that the epidemic was more advanced in some regions …-specific start of the epidemic and comparing outcomes across regions with earlier and later start dates. When estimating the effect … of the relative timing of measures, we control for regional characteristics and initial epidemic trends by linear …
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This study uses trade data from Switzerland's Federal Customs Administration to examine the impact of Covid-19 on international goods trade between January and July 2020. We show that Swiss trade during that period fell by 11% compared to 2019 and that the contraction following the "Federal...
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Die Corona-Krise hat ihren Ausgangspunkt in China und große gesundheitliche sowie wirtschaftliche Schäden verursacht. Mittlerweile sind auch in Japan, Korea, Italien, Deutschland, Großbritannien, Frankreich, Spanien und vor allem den USA hohe und rapide wachsende Fallzahlen von Infektionen...
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The implementation of a lockdown to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a strong economic and political debate in several countries. This makes it crucial to shed light on the actual benefits of such kind of policy. To this purpose, we focus on the Swiss lockdown during the...
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Hundreds of thousands of articles related to COVID-19 have been published worldwide, and many of them have focused on public administration and public policy aspects related to this pandemic. Certainly, the general lack of relevant knowledge and necessary experience for a robust governance...
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