Länder des globalen Südens sind hart durch die Corona-Pandemie getroffen. Südostasien und die Pazifikregion offenbar stärker als gedacht. Darauf lassen alternative, hochfrequente Indikatoren wie Stickstoffdioxidemissionen, der Tiefgang von Containerschiffen oder Suchmaschinenanfragen...

This paper describes a weekly economic index (WEI) developed to track the rapid economic developments associated with the onset of and policy response to the novel coronavirus in the United States. The WEI, with its ten component series, tracks the overall economy. Comparing the contributions of...

This paper proposes a comparison between multidimensional and unidimensional poverty indicators. Sets of poor units identified by traditional head count ratio, fuzzy unidimensional and fuzzy multidimensional indices are compared by means of a rank correlation analysis. The robustness of the...

This paper documents daily compound indicators on physical mobility and sales activity in Switzerland during the Corona crisis. We report several insights from these indicators: The Swiss population substantially reduced its activities already before the shops closed and before the authorities...