The emergence of sharing economy, especially accommodation platform has enable people to rent and capitalize on their private properties by renting to others. However, with the covid-19 pandemic and proximity to first-tier city it is crucial to examine how these sharing accommodation properties...

This paper reviews the economic literature on how the COVID-19 pandemic and responses to it affected income inequality throughout the world. Inequality had been rising long before the pandemic. The COVID shock affected employment, income, and education differently for various occupations and...

This paper compiles and presents a global panel dataset of energy poverty policy actions spanning the period March 2020 and March 2021. It builds on the COVID-19 Energy Map that collects policies to ensure the affordability of energy supplies for households during the COVID-19 pandemic. The...

A 2021-22 Survey of Trade Promotion Organisations (TPOs) conducted by the World Bank to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic affected their functioning uncovers significant heterogeneity in TPOs' characteristics across countries, but also income levels. This led to different responses to the...

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the number of international tourist arrivals in the Republic of South Africa (RSA) is studied in this paper using the seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) model comprising a pulse function covariate vector evaluated via trial and error...