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While COVID-19 lockdowns have reduced global carbon dioxide emissions this year, intensive pre-pandemic emissions are likely to return with a vengeance in 2021.
At the same time, many are implementing programs and policies to support households and businesses, in the hope of mitigating the economic fallout of lockdowns and social distancing.
Restrictions on cross-border movements, along with national lockdowns, are rapidly reducing global production and consumption, and disrupting value chains.
But if lives have not ended, livelihoods have, owing to draconian but ineffective lockdowns introduced in March.
The budget adopted just before the lockdowns is in tatters, its every assumption rendered irrelevant.
Although both the formal sector and the large informal sector are currently struggling, owing to lockdowns and economic restrictions, private firms will be crucial to Africa’s recovery and future development.
How (Not) to Fight COVID-19MELBOURNE/TUCSON – When COVID-19 first appeared, strict quarantine requirements and short, tight lockdowns would have been a small price to pay to keep it at bay.
There is a moral obligation to limit the harms from quarantine, as well as to stop the spread of a virus that will, unless effectively checked, cause hundreds of thousands more deaths and prolong lockdowns, with all the hardship that entails for billions of people.
But, depending on the next wave’s intensity, local or regional lockdowns may still be deemed necessary in the most extreme cases.
But if lockdowns remain localized and temporary, if health systems continue to expand testing, and especially if a vaccine or more effective treatments are developed, the economic outlook need not be as bleak as many believe.
With infection rates surging and lockdowns being reimposed across the country – including at recently reopened universities – this failure threatens to become even more costly.
Regressive policies and recent lockdowns have made in-clinic abortions less available, even though it is an essential medical procedure.
And when they do, they must be able to travel to health-care facilities, even where lockdowns are enforced.
People now talk about the role of the R0 factor (the average number of new infections caused by each infected person) and about the need to flatten the contagion curve through social distancing and lockdowns.
As a consequence, macroeconomists are now focusing on how to make social distancing and lockdowns tolerable and limit the damage that the supply shock will generate.
In fact, the same researchers who reported that COVID-19 lockdowns had caused emissions to drop also reported that, when lockdowns have been eased, emissions immediately rose.
Sustaining lockdowns – which disproportionately hurt the poorest and most vulnerable – is not the answer.
When the pandemic erupted, MIC governments responded with lockdowns and economic stimulus.
For example, as we saw in many places, nature quickly “bounced back” during the early stages of the pandemic, owing to society-wide lockdowns.
On February 4, Kerala declared COVID-19 a state-level disaster, and shut schools, restricted public gatherings, and instituted lockdowns in early March.
In fact, given the widespread lockdowns aimed at combating the spread of the virus, many risk losing far more than their job: it is not alarmist to say that they could starve.
Throughout the world, sudden mid-semester lockdowns aimed at combating the pandemic forced universities to switch to distance learning almost overnight.
Developing countries can also increase the threshold for insolvency and adapt debt-restructuring rules to prevent unnecessary liquidation of firms that are struggling for no other reason than lockdowns.
Remarkably, European output rebounded sharply when governments lifted the lockdowns, despite the relatively less generous fiscal support.
Now that countries must plan beyond their lockdowns, an equally stark contrast has emerged.
In the US and the UK, ambiguous containment regimes without clear exit plans have resulted in a policy stalemate between maintaining unsustainable lockdowns and recklessly opening up the economy.
New waves of infection may necessitate renewed lockdowns, impede or even reverse economic recovery, and intensify fiscal pressures.
Time for a Great ResetGENEVA – COVID-19 lockdowns may be gradually easing, but anxiety about the world’s social and economic prospects is only intensifying.
China’s draconian lockdowns produced a dramatic decline in new cases, whereas America’s delayed and fragmented response allowed infections – and the death toll – to mount.
As lockdowns are eased, software installed in WeChat and Alipay, Alibaba’s online payment platform, is being used to monitor residents’ health and determine where they can go.
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