Pandemic
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Alternatively, because Biden consistently leads Trump in opinion polls, Trump could try to use the COVID-19
pandemic
as a pretext for postponing or otherwise corrupting the election.
A Moment of Truth in the PandemicGENEVA – Now almost in its tenth month, the COVID-19
pandemic
is still wreaking havoc on economies and lives around the world.
World leaders now have an opportunity to seal the deal on a global framework that puts international cooperation above vaccine nationalism in stopping the
pandemic.
If successful, this will be the first time that the international community has come together to ensure equitable and simultaneous access to new lifesaving
pandemic
interventions for rich and poor alike.
Though the
pandemic
is far from over, we at least have a global solution in sight.
Beyond uncertainties about COVID-19’s direct health effects, children are highly vulnerable to the economic consequences of the pandemic, which threatens to push 71-100 million people into extreme poverty worldwide.
Recent data show that more than 36% of black families and 45% of Hispanic families have cut spending on food during the pandemic, compared to about 24% of white families.
Prior to the pandemic, 22 million US children relied on free or subsidized school lunches, funded by the National School Lunch Program.
Even before the pandemic, these countries, as well as Canada, had more generous child-focused social policies.
In the meantime, the COVID-19
pandemic
will continue to exacerbate the effects of Lebanon’s fractious internal politics, susceptibility to external pressures, and economic disarray.
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.
With cold weather expected to exacerbate the COVID-19 pandemic, and a hard winter posing possible challenges to Lebanon, it would be wise for Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, and the EU to begin preparing for a potential next wave of refugees from the Levant.
The ECB Must Finance COVID-19 DeficitsBRUSSELS – The coronavirus
pandemic
has triggered a combined negative supply and demand shock of unprecedented intensity.
In the case of the current pandemic, national governments will need to save businesses from bankruptcy by granting financial support and subsidies, assist workers by funding temporary unemployment schemes, and possibly even come to the rescue of large banks.
For those countries suffering the worst of the pandemic, the threat of a bondholder panic will have been removed from the equation.
Even before the
pandemic
struck, the global merchandise export-to-GDP ratio had been declining for the first time since World War II, falling by about five percentage points since 2008 to about 20% this year.
The question now is how the
pandemic
will influence the process of deglobalization that was already underway.
Shelter from the Middle East’s Perfect StormOXFORD – The COVID-19
pandemic
has triggered a public-health emergency and a steep reduction in oil prices, which represents a perfect storm for the Middle East, where everything from salaries to subsidies are dependent on oil revenues.
Worse, the
pandemic
has hit the region at a time when it was already reeling from multiple crises.
Though there is a growing chorus calling for global efforts to deal with the pandemic, the first thing the Middle East needs is a targeted regional strategy.
As the
pandemic
lays bare the region’s fault lines, Arab leaders must recognize that a strategic vacuum never remains unfilled.
The global
pandemic
offers an opportunity to imagine a different future.
The Helicopters Are ComingNEW YORK – With the COVID-19
pandemic
intensifying, the United States has just adopted a $2 trillion economic-rescue package (equal to 9.2% of 2019 GDP).
The US economy is deteriorating at a spectacular rate, partly because of the direct health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, but mostly as a result of social-distancing mandates that are preventing people from producing and consuming.
To be effective, the fiscal support must be targeted meticulously at households that have lost incomes and at companies (large and small) that have lost revenues as a result of the
pandemic.
Vietnam’s spectacularly effective
pandemic
response, for example, can be attributed not only to one of the world’s most disciplined governments, but also to wise investments in health care.
But rather than paralyzing Vietnamese policymakers, that insecurity has fostered a sense of strategic discipline and vigilance, which has contributed to the country’s extraordinary performance during the
pandemic.
A deep determination to battle against great odds may explain why East Asia has so far responded far better to the
pandemic
than most of the West.
The combination of
pandemic
fatigue and the politicization of public health practices has come into play at precisely the moment when the long anticipated second wave of COVID-19 is at hand.
The understandable fear of personal interactions in the midst of a
pandemic
brings us to the second ingredient of the double-dip: aftershocks.
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