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Lost wages will reduce consumption, causing additional job cuts, while factory closures will reduce investment, hitting employment in capital goods industries.
When emerging economies’ policymakers were told that they needed to implement significant austerity, as well as widespread bank closures, to cleanse the economy after a crisis, they did not protest, despite the prospect of years of high unemployment.
Syria’s border closures, in particular, have impeded regional trade, by cutting off a key route connecting the wider Levant, the Gulf States, and Turkey.
Iraq and Syria were key export markets for Jordan, and border closures have wreaked economic havoc among its farmers and manufacturers.
You are going to have more stable governments where you are operating; you will have fewer pull-outs, closures, and disruptions; you will have a more sustainable market.
And because 59% of post office branches are located in ZIP codes with one or no bank branches, this would go a long way toward addressing the impact of bank branch closures.
School closures have also had more severe consequences for women and girls.
Even if relatively short in duration, closures in low-income settings can result in long-run losses of human capital among girls.
Equally pervasive is the effect of lockdowns and closures on childcare.
School closures also cut off children’s access to valuable daily support and guidance from teachers, counselors, and nurses.
The political dynamics are no less tense within the European Union, where the Brexit negotiations are in disarray, and border closures in response to the pandemic have called into question the future of the EU’s passport-free Schengen area.
Because the vast majority have been unable to make the transition to online education, school closures have widened the pre-existing gap between how much rich children and poor children learn.
As school closures drag on, this crisis risks becoming a catastrophe.
The World Bank estimates that the learning already lost as a result of five months of school closures will cost this generation $10 trillion in lifetime earnings.
Because pandemic-related school closures could be long-lasting or recurrent, policymakers must radically rethink how to deliver education so that all children are learning.
Beyond the escalating global health emergency, which has already killed thousands, the pandemic has disrupted normal trade and travel, forced many school closures, roiled the international financial system, and sunk global stock markets.
The inability of households and firms to make rent, service loans, meet payroll, and pay taxes triggered a cascade of business closures, job losses, furloughs, bankruptcies, and ballooning fiscal deficits.
Although the COVID-19 disease burden in some African countries has so far remained limited, this is the result of aggressive containment and mitigation measures, ranging from complete lockdowns to border closures.
A major wave of layoffs by carmakers has followed, with Ford announcing factory closures and an estimated one million jobs in jeopardy.
Similarly, many government offices and schools had planned holiday closures independently of the virus outbreak.
In 1918, like today, cities instituted social-distancing measures, including school closures, prohibitions on public gatherings, and face-mask requirements.
The supply shock results from output cuts, factory closures, disruptions to supply chains, trade, and transport, and higher prices for material supplies, along with a tightening of credit.
And the aggregate-demand shock stems from lower consumer spending – owing to quarantines, “social distancing,” and the reduction in incomes caused by workplace disruptions and closures – and delayed investment spending.
Here, New York City’s decision to provide “grab-and-go meals” and supervision for the children of health-care providers, first responders, and public-transit employees represents an important step, given that school closures, by indisposing critical workers, can actually increase net mortality from COVID-19.
Yes, the coronavirus may have reduced China’s CO2 emissions this year, owing to the factory closures in Wuhan and general economic malaise.
Border closures and other supply-chain disruptions could reduce the available supply of contraceptives, which are often out of stock even in normal times.
Prolonged school closures and joblessness could contribute to increases in domestic violence, teenage pregnancies, and child marriage, especially in countries that lack basic infrastructure for remote schooling.
Yet it has been met with border closures and competition over supplies and future vaccine doses, not to mention curbs on civil liberties and expansion of surveillance capabilities, including in democracies.
The negative supply shock caused by factory closures is transmitted via supply chains to downstream sectors around the world, including in countries not currently experiencing a major COVID-19 outbreak.
The message is clear: policymakers must offer continued support to businesses, in order to prevent a costly wave of closures and insolvencies.
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