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Quick vaccine rollouts are crucial for a strong economic recovery, but vaccine hesitancy could prolong the pandemic and the need for social distancing and lockdowns. We use individual-level data from nationally representative surveys developed by YouGov and Imperial College London to empirically...
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing vaccination process calls for decisive, internationally coordinated and forward … to be considered early enough to enable smooth global vaccination campaigns. Addressing the four key challenges, we … recommend the following short, medium- and long-term actions. In the short term, we advise accelerating global vaccination …
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World Bank will have approved vaccination operations in over 50 countries. It is vital to speed up the supply chain. The …World Bank Group President David Malpass stated that the immediate priority is for countries that have sufficient … supply to quickly release doses to countries that have vaccination deployment programs. He said that by the end of June, the …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has turbocharged world history while ravaging global populations. From digital transformations of … the two largest economies today will have an important effect on the overall ability of the world to combat COVID-19, as …
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In this paper, we analyse vaccine inequity under international human rights law. In Part 1, we introduce the currently available COVID-19 vaccines, before discussing causes and consequences of vaccine inequity, as well as current efforts to expand global vaccine access. In Part 2, we turn to...
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Prior research suggests that the tightness of cultural norms in a community acts as a deterrent to the adoption of disruptive innovation. Yet, culture is a multifaceted construct. While certain components of cultural tightness are primarily based on the strength of historical connectivity...
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This paper analyses the extent to which additional extraordinary public spending to accelerate vaccination might have …
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Using data on over 6,000 firms across 56 economies during the first quarter of 2020, we evaluate the connection between corporate characteristics and stock price reactions to COVID-19 cases. We find that the pandemic-induced drop in stock prices was milder among firms with (a) stronger pre-2020...
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