COVID-19 is the communicable disease caused by the most recently discovered Corona Virus.2019 to at present World maximum countries are expiring COVID-19 and wide spread of the virus with number of variants already carried off a considerable amount of lives. All the affected countries have been...

This review paper examine about impact of the COVID-19 outbreak. The COVID-19 is a global virus. This virus effected whole world economy. Specially we review about Sri Lanka economy. There are some important things we are reported. About GDP, Employment, tourism, poverty, House holdincome .Last...

Tourism is one of the sectors most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed the number of international tourist arrivals declined by 84 per cent between march and December 2020 compared with the previous year, according to data observed by UNWTO. Based on a range of tourist arrivals...

A universal testing and isolation policy is the most viable way to vanquish a pandemic. Its implementation requires: (i) an epidemiological rather than clinical approach to testing, sacrificing accuracy for scalability, convenience and speed; and (ii) state intervention to ramp up production,...

Using the U.S. Current Population Survey data, this paper compares the distributional impacts of the Pandemic Crisis and those of the Global Financial Crisis in terms of (i) worker characteristics, (ii) job characteristics-'social' (where individuals interact to consume goods), 'teleworkable'...

Two decades after the SARS outbreak, Asia is confronted with COVID-19 which has caused a greater economic impact to the region. In this paper, using China and the ASEAN's experiences of SARS and COVID-19 as a case study, we aim to identify the economic impact of a pandemic that is associated...

We examine the short-term impact of COVID-19 on consumption spending and labor market outcomes. Using monthly panel data of individuals mainly aged 50-70 in Singapore, we find that COVID-19 reduced consumption spending and labor market outcomes immediately after its outbreak, and its negative...

We provide novel evidence on how the COVID-19 global health and economic crisis is affecting overall life satisfaction and domain-specific satisfaction using data from a monthly longitudinal survey of middle-aged and older Singaporeans. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we document...