A lack of timely financing for purchases of vaccines and other health products impeded the global response to the COVID …- and middle-income countries to secure orders earlier, ensuring a much faster and equitable global response than during …

covering the period end-2020 to mid-2021. Causal effects are identified through instrumenting vaccination rates with county …. Specifically, an increase of initiated vaccination rates of 1 percentage point increases weekly consumer spending by 0.6 percent …

surprises in vaccines administered, we find that an unexpected increase in vaccination per capita is associated with a … benefits being larger when vaccination rates are higher. Country-specific conditions play an important role, with lower …

’s health infrastructure, and vaccine acceptance are significant determinants of the speed of vaccination rollouts; (ii) vaccine …

Fighting the COVID-19 pandemic required vaccinations; however, ending it requires vaccination equality. The progress in … vaccinations varies greatly across countries, with low- and middle-income countries having much lower vaccination rates than … challenges and vaccine hesitancy. This paper quantifies the importance of various factors in driving vaccination rates across …

and those of the Global Financial Crisis in terms of (i) worker characteristics, (ii) job characteristics-'social' (where … workers. Unlike during the Global Financial Crisis, however, employment in social industries fell more whereas employment in …