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predictions. This paper critiques Ghana's responses to the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of Foucault's biopolitics. The main … and epidemiology. The research assesses Ghana's effectiveness in governing the COVID-19 pandemic contrary to apocalyptic … result of this study showed that Ghana survived the pandemic because of effective policies, not providence. The study also …
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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 unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has a severe impact on societies, economies and labor markets. However, not all countries, socio-economic groups and sectors within all countries are equally affected. Part of this difference can be related to the different role and extent of short-time work,...
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This study suggests that the next infectious diseases similar to COVID-19 is the effects of main factors associated with high population growth, polluting industrialization, climate change, environmental pollution and in particular the change of the interrelationship between humans, fauna and...
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Paper provides an analysis of public debt problem in the Caucasian countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russia and Turkey during the economic crisis under the COVID-19 pandemic. It also discussed some closely related issues, such as inflation, economic growth, employment,...
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This descriptive study aimed to estimate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis on cooperative in Indonesia and to explore crisis mitigation measures (CMMs) they undertake with the reference to saving and loan cooperatives (KSPs). This study was based on a literature study and a survey on 66...
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underlying unobserved component. We use the derived indicator to trace the response of the PBoC to the coronavirus pandemic. The …
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The Covid-19 pandemic is estimated to have caused over 7 million deaths and reduced economic output by over $13 trillion to date. While vaccines were developed and deployed with unprecedented speed, pre-pandemic investments could have accelerated their widespread introduction, saving millions of...
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We consider the largely unexpected shock caused by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India to assess whether major crises that impact the well-being of a large number of individuals can be catalysts for civic activism. Exploiting state-level variation in COVID-19 peaks and...
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I study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the formal employment of entrants from each post-Great Recession year. Using longitudinal Mexican social security records and an individual fixed-effects difference-in-differences design, I find that the pandemic caused more recent entrants from...
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