The sudden outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease, or COVID-19, has frozen the world economy and presented the toughest financial outlook in decades. Can the world economy recover? Will there be a transformation in globalization and supply chains? What are the opportunities after the pandemic?
The Covid-19 pandemic has been a huge challenge for governments all over the world, as well as for the World Health Organization (WHO) and the pharmaceutical companies in charge of creating the vaccines against the coronavirus. The success of all the efforts and the measures put in place to...
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered or lives in countless ways, from our behavior to how we think about health and responsibility. It has divided American society, and united others. It has ended too many lives, and changed the course of many more. Yet there is hope, the latest results fr...
Davide Proserpio was one of the first academics to study the sharing economy as he completed his Ph.D. Today he is considered a leading expert in the so-called “gig” economy. We asked him five questions about how the COVID-19 pandemic and resultant shutdown are affecting the sector. ...
The COVID-19 crisis is affecting the entire world economy and of Africa in particular. No single country, state or Kingdom on the globe is left out from the consequences of the pandemic outbreak that has been devastatin...
How will COVID-19 change the way we travel in the future? Airbnb, a US vacation rental(租借) company, did a survey on travel trends around the world. Here are some of its findings.Getting back to nature In China, 76 percent of those surveyed hope to travel to suburban(郊区的) areas...
Research shows that the supply and demand for talent in some industries have been affected by COVID-19. The pandemic could also affect what people want to pursue as a career, and the choice of major which students choose to pursue at universities. How is it going to affect job seek...
The sudden halt of mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic has become an important accelerator of digitalization. People have reconnected in the digital world from home while the physical world has been unsafe. During the lockdown, communication without social platforms, entertainment without streaming ...
The effect has not been equal, however. Somecountries have been hit far more powerfullyby Covid-19 than others, whether because of incompetence,indifferenceor ill luck. Some businesses and people have also been hit far harder than others, because their activities depend on close physical contact...
The COVID-19 pandemic (流行病) has changed how American schools operate.Over the past two years,students and teachers in many places have depended on virtual learning to slow the spread of COVID-19.Now many schools are open again.But attacks by cyber-criminals (网络罪犯) are making it har...