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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a widespread adverse impact on the world economy.Measures adopted by governments around the world to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus,such as lockdowns,social distancing orders,travel restrictions and border closures,caused tremendous disruptions to economic ...
HELSINKI, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- As COVID-19 continues to take its toll in Finland, the collateral damage caused by the restrictions on businesses is becoming an increasingly divisive issue. Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin pledged on Tuesday that "wide-ranging measures" are being prepared in...
Editor's note:Over the past three years, China has been working to coordinate its pandemic prevention and control policies with economic and social development. It was the only major economy to achieve positive growth in the pandemic-ravaged year of 2020, and its GDP expanded 8.1% year on yea...
The COVID-19 pandemic is confronting every level of the U.S. economy with an unprecedented challenge, and the government must mount a sustained, ambitious economic response lasting months and perhaps years, UC Berkeley economists said in an online forum
and its GDP expanded 8.1% year on year to 114.37 trillion yuan in 2021, which puts the two-year average growth at 5.1%. As the country has further optimized its COVID-19 response policy recently, the recovery will be sure to pick up pace and infuse fresh vigor into the world economy....
What will be COVID-19’s long-term economic impact? How can societies build a new and better normal beyond the pandemic? 10 Dec 20215 min read Individuals, companies and governments were largely unprepared for the sheer magnitude of COVID-19, a virus that has both mirro...
More than 2.1 million people around the world have become infected with COVID-19, and more than 140,000 people have died from the disease. The United States, now approaching 650,000 infections, is the new epicenter of the outbreak.
Ocampo said that regional economic deterioration due to the crisis has been "brutal," with plummeting employment and an increase in inequality. A basic income should be "on the agenda of the countries of the region," he added, explaining that informal workers have been one of the hardest hit...
Future research might consider other ways in which young Canadian children have been affected by COVID-19. Although children are less likely to contract the virus, their normal routines have been severely disrupted with closures of childcare and schools. ...