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Although 200 countries and territories have planned or implemented social-protection measures in response to the pandemic, many governments have struggled to identify informal workers who are not covered by existing welfare programs or social-security schemes for formal-sector employees.
In Thailand, where more than 28 million people applied for a new benefit for informal workers affected by the pandemic, the government was able to filter out those who would receive assistance from other schemes.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the urgent need for digital ID systems that will allow governments to deliver social assistance and financial support faster and more accountably to households and businesses.
As countries focus on “building back better” after the pandemic, they have a crucial opportunity to leapfrog to a more digital economy – and to do so responsibly.
(Of course, the deficit incurred more recently in responding to the pandemic was unavoidable and, under the circumstances, beneficial.)
While other G20 leaders discussed pandemic preparedness at their recently concluded summit, for example, Trump evidently tweeted more false accusations of electoral fraud and then played golf.
The top items include the pandemic, climate change, and the global recession, which will require joint action by advanced economies on fiscal stimulus, debt restructuring, and trade.
Pandemic diseases such as COVID-19 are a classic example of an international externality that individual governments can’t adequately address on their own.
Beyond measures to address the pandemic itself, advanced economies must agree above all on joint fiscal stimulus, as they did at the 1978 Bonn summit of G7 leaders and at the 2009 G20 meetings under the leadership of the United Kingdom’s then-prime minister, Gordon Brown.
But emerging-market and developing economies (EMDEs) – especially those that already had unsustainable debt burdens before the pandemic struck – have much less room to maneuver.
When “Whatever It Takes” Isn’t EnoughNEW YORK – When interpreting the US Federal Reserve’s weekend announcement of new measures to mitigate the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important not to confuse motion with action.
Unlike the 2008 crash, the COVID-19 pandemic is not a financial crisis that risks spilling over into the real economy.
Ignoring the financial fallout from the pandemic would lead to further damage to the real economy.
Clearly, health-care expenditures (COVID-19 testing and treatment) should be covered by the state, as should paid sick leave for workers who have been prevented from earning as a result of the pandemic.
The pervasive uncertainty created by the pandemic is bound to undermine household consumption (by boosting precautionary saving) and corporate investment (because the option value of waiting has increased).
These countries now face a stark choice: they can spend enough to protect their citizens’ health and restart their economies, or service their debts and have virtually no resources left to tackle the pandemic and kick-start economic recovery.
Trump’s Global RecessionWASHINGTON, DC – On Monday, February 24, with stock markets close to all-time highs, the world was suddenly thrown into a financial crisis as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
True, that crisis originated in the financial sector, which now appears to be much better capitalized, and policymakers back then had no pandemic to contend with.
Needless to say, the COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest challenge facing the global economy since 2008.
But our accumulated knowledge of ecological systems, virology, genetics, fluid dynamics, epidemiology, anthropology, clinical medicine, microbiology, and dozens of other scientific branches offer a wealth of insights that can prevent the current pandemic from upending modern life – if only we use it.
Containing a pandemic requires strengthening the weakest links – in an individual hospital, a local community, a country, or the world.
The COVID-19 pandemic has already brought about the fastest exchange of scientific knowledge in human history, with scientific journals removing relevant paywalls.
And an effective joint response could lay the groundwork for a new, more nimble multilateralism that is far better equipped to handle future global challenges, from climate change to the next pandemic.
Future historians will judge our effectiveness in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic.
The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic will shape the world for years to come.
The immediate priority is to mobilize all available resources to contain the pandemic.
A pandemic is like a forest fire: if you haven’t extinguished it everywhere, then you haven’t extinguished it at all.
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit Russia hard, in terms of both public health and economic fallout.
In retrospect, it would not have been unreasonable to assume that South Korea would suffer more than other OECD countries from the pandemic.
South Korea today is a technologically intensive society, and that has almost certainly made a difference in the context of the pandemic, particularly when it has come to monitoring localized risks and containing the spread of the virus.
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