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during the COVID-19 pandemic can serve as a feasible blueprint for creating durable solutions across countries. Adopting a … response to the challenges brought forth by the pandemic. Using an unsupervised clustering algorithm (k-means), it groups …. The study highlights countries' unequal capacity to respond to covariate shocks such as the pandemic, in both fiscal and …
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pandemic and highlights pertinent policy takeaways for turning the health crisis into an opportunity for a strengthened social …
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Governors’ responses to the severe threats to public health posed by COVID-19 have not been uniform. We are among the first to provide empirical analyses to document to what extent stay at home orders or shelter in place orders were issued differently based on political, business and...
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The article is a review of the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”), an initiative under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act. The program was meant as a lifeline for small businesses by offering forgivable loans. However, recent reports have indicated that...
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This paper analyzes how different organizational structures between funding and implementing agencies affect the quality of aid delivered and social agendas pursued across neighboring villages in a set disaster context. We model the implied objective functions and trade-offs concerning aid...
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The era of big-government COVID relief is over. The initial pandemic relief legislation, followed by two years of … from recent experience, including, but not limited to, the COVID-19 pandemic. Crisis-induced lawmaking often arises after …
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Little is known about how aggregate economic shocks are mitigated by social safety nets. I use hurricanes as an exogenous shock to the economics of US counties and show that non-disaster government transfers, such as unemployment insurance and public medical spending, increase substantially in...
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This paper proposes the application of taxonomic tools to study the differentiation of standard of living in the European Union countries. The aggre-gate distance between given countries is the basis for grouping member states in terms of their internal structure of the studied characteristics....
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This paper proposes the application of taxonomic tools to study the differentiation of standard of living in the European Union countries. The aggre-gate distance between given countries is the basis for grouping member states in terms of their internal structure of the studied characteristics....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273829
This chapter introduces empirical issues that are distinctive to counting-based multidimensional poverty methodologies. It is crucial that indicators accurately reflect deprivations at the individual level and that all indicators be transformed to reflect deprivations in the chosen unit of...
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