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Johnson has regularly talked up the UK’s “world-beating”
pandemic
response, but all evidence points to the contrary.
NEW YORK – Despite the deep polarization of American politics, there appears to be more agreement than disagreement over how to deal with the economic fallout from the COVID-19
pandemic.
Recessions don’t usually feature labor scarcities, but in this case, the demand for labor at the front line of the
pandemic
is rapidly increasing.
If more workers had union contracts – which act as another automatic stabilizer – the blow from the
pandemic
would already have been softened.
The COVID-19
pandemic
compels us to rethink well-established frameworks for data collection and privacy protection.
The US Council of Economic Advisers evaluated these schemes shortly before the
pandemic
(not that anyone noticed) and found that they are not very effective at imparting skills and enhancing job prospects.
The 25-year-old Bangladeshi woman had just given birth at home – thinking it a safer setting than the hospital during a
pandemic.
Doing so during a
pandemic
imbues the experience with a new form of stress.
This is just one example of how the imperative of managing the COVID-19
pandemic
is complicating the delivery of essential health services – and leaving women, in particular, highly vulnerable.
If this
pandemic
has shown us one thing, it is the lifesaving potential of technology and connectivity.
To pass it, leaders everywhere must recognize that, while the
pandemic
affects everyone, those who were already marginalized – including women, ethnic minorities, and the poor – are likely to suffer the most.
Both wanted and unwanted intimacy occurs during a
pandemic.
Pregnant women face the same stresses as everyone in a
pandemic.
In many places, overburdened health-care systems can’t provide pregnant women with the level of maternal care they expected – and received – before the
pandemic.
COVID-19 is Not World War IICAMBRIDGE – Although the COVID-19
pandemic
feels unprecedented, it is not the first time that exogenous forces have radically disrupted civilian life.
Unfortunately for the best-case scenario, the public-health response in advanced economies has fallen far short of what is needed to contain the pandemic, and the fiscal-policy package currently being debated is neither large nor rapid enough to create the conditions for a timely recovery.
Unless the
pandemic
is stopped, economies and markets around the world will continue their free fall.
But even if the
pandemic
is more or less contained, overall growth still might not return by the end of 2020.
In any case, even if the
pandemic
and the economic fallout were brought under control, the global economy could still be subject to a number of “white swan” tail risks.
Similarly, as I have argued previously, markets are vastly underestimating the risk of a war between the US and Iran this year; the deterioration of Sino-American relations is accelerating as each side blames the other for the scale of the COVID-19
pandemic.
How Aging Societies Should Respond to PandemicsLONDON – The global fight against COVID-19 has triggered a surge of interest in the 1918-20 influenza
pandemic
that killed more than 50 million people around the world.
Many of the countries that have been most severely hit by the pandemic, such as Italy, have been affected precisely because of their high levels of intergenerational mixing.
Young people today should therefore be much more interested than their predecessors a century ago in how society looks after the health of the elderly during a once-in-50-years
pandemic.
Ensuring targeted support for the young both now and after the
pandemic
is essential, especially in the case of college graduates entering the labor market.
Macroeconomists initially saw the
pandemic
as a negative demand shock that would need to be countered by expansionary fiscal and monetary policies to support aggregate spending.
Unlike the 2008 global financial crisis, which led to a collapse in demand, the COVID-19
pandemic
is first and foremost a supply shock.
In other words, just when developing countries need to manage the pandemic, most have seen their fiscal space evaporate and face large funding gaps.
To help manage the
pandemic
in the Global South, therefore, it is critical to recirculate the money that is fleeing the developing countries back to them.
WASHINGTON, DC – Confronting a
pandemic
is a grueling trial even for the most advanced economies.
The consequences are devastating and becoming more so – and that includes for the
pandemic
response itself.
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