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State-level health and economic impact of COVID-19 in India

Deb, Pragyan; Xu, TengTeng - 2021

The health and economic impacts of COVID-19 on India have been substantial, with wide variation across states and union …. State characteristics, such as health care infrastructure and the share of services in the economy, played an important role … in shaping the health and economic outcomes, highlighting the importance of adequate social spending, health care …

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Determinants of COVID-19 vaccine rollouts and their effects on health outcomes

Deb, Pragyan; Furceri, Davide; Jiménez, Daniel; … - 2021

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Unintended effects from the expansion of the non-contributory health system in Peru

Nauerz, Jonas; Torres, Jose - 2021

Over the last two decades, the Peruvian government has made great efforts to improve access to health care by … significantly augmenting the coverage of the non-contributory public health care system Seguro Integral de Salud (SIS). This … expansion has a positive impact on welfare and public health indicators, as it limits the risk of catastrophic health …

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COVID-19 pandemic : asymmetric effects across gender and age

Caselli, Francesca; Grigoli, Francesco; Sandri, Damiano; … - 2020

Lockdowns and voluntary social distancing led to significant reduction in people's mobility. Yet, there is scant evidence on the heterogeneous effects across segments of the population. Using unique mobility indicators based on anonymized and aggregate data provided by Vodafone for Italy,...

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Protecting lives and livelihoods with early and tight lockdowns

Caselli, Francesca; Grigoli, Francesco; Lian, Weicheng; … - 2020

Using high-frequency proxies for economic activity over a large sample of countries, we show that the economic crisis during the first seven months of the COVID-19 pandemic was only partly due to government lockdowns. Economic activity also contracted because of voluntary social distancing in...

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Creative destruction during crises : an opportunity for a cleaner energy mix

Deb, Pragyan; Furceri, Davide; Ostry, Jonathan David; … - 2021

Lockdowns resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic have reduced overall energy demand but electricity generation from renewable sources has been resilient. While this partly reflects the trend increase in renewables, the empirical analysis presented in this paper highlights that recessions result in...

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Capital markets, COVID-19 and policy measures

ElFayoumi, Khalid; Hengge, Martina - 2021

cases, the stringency of the lockdown, and the fiscal and monetary policy response determined the dynamics of portfolio … financing needs in affected economies. Lockdown and fiscal policy measures also led to an increase in portfolio flows; however …

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Who will bear the brunt of lockdown policies? : evidence from tele-workability measures across countries

Brussevich, Mariya; Dabla-Norris, Era; Khalid, Salma - 2020

Lockdowns imposed around the world to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic are having a differential impact on economic activity and jobs. This paper presents a new index of the feasibility to work from home to investigate what types of jobs are most at risk. We estimate that over 97.3...

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Supply spillovers during the pandemic : evidence from high-frequency shipping data

Cerdeiro, Diego A.; Komaromi, Andras - 2020

World trade contracted dramatically during the global economic crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Disruptions in international supply chains were widely reported as governments imposed containment measures (lockdowns) to halt the spread of the disease. At the same time, demand declined as...

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Exiting from lockdowns : early evidence from reopenings in Europe

Franks, Jeffrey Richard; Gruss, Bertrand; Mulas … - 2020

European authorities introduced stringent lockdown measures in early 2020 to reduce the transmission of COVID-19. As …

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