That means, apart from restricting people's social lives, nations pay a considerable economic cost. Alessandro Teixeira, a former economic adviser to the president of Brazil, shares his views on the impact of CO
After COVID-19, there is no significant causality between economic growth education and health. The results of this study may be of great importance for policy and decision makers in developing policies to foster human capital for European countries....
This paper examines how the economies of old industrial cities in Northeast China respond to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic crisis. The notion of resistance in regional economic resilience is used to explore what impact factors shape the response to the early stage of the crisis. The analysis ...
A report now estimates that a pandemic will cost $570 billion a year. That represents 0.7% of the world’s total income. A pandemic can overwhelm global health systems. It can also force infected individuals to avoid the office or work less productively. The fear of infection spread forces ...
COVID-19 pandemic is one of the biggest global public health emergencies in recent centuries [1,2]. The threat of COVID-19 spread caused global health emergencies, resulting in governments' unprecedented decisions, including the lockdown of cities, specific states, or whole countries. The lockdo...
To the best of our knowledge, our study is one of the first to provide empirical data on human behaviours captured during the lockdown, at a national scale. Fig. 1: French context of the Covid-19 until the last lockdown day. Part a reports the key dates (top panel) and the ...
particularly in the final months of 2023. But even though global inflation is higher than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, when it hovered around 2 percent, it’sreceding to historical levels. In fact, by late 2022, investors were predicting that long-term inflation would settle around ...
productivity is a measure of output relative to input. The most common productivity measure is labor productivity, defined as economic output (gross domestic product, or GDP) per hour worked. Labor productivity is typically the biggest determinant of both economic and wage growth in the long term...
Also at the core of China's COVID response is a fine balance between pandemic control and economic development. It has proved cost-effective by only isolating affected communities and allowing others to operate normally. As the world's second largest economy, China has played a decisive role in...
Paediatric obesity is also more pronounced in populations living in vulnerable conditions, such as children whose parents are migrants, are unemployed or lack a social network, and children who do not live with both biological parents (Iguacel et al., 2018). The COVID-19 pandemic and its ...