Pandemic
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As the climate economist Gernot Wagner has noted, the
pandemic
in a sense replicates climate change at warp speed.
The
pandemic
has also provided a crash course on the collective implications of individual behavior.
For starters, climate action is inherently global, whereas the fight against a
pandemic
has a much more local character.
The same does not apply to the
pandemic.
Whereas many advanced and emerging economies have introduced huge economic-stimulus and rescue plans, the Ethiopian government has been constrained by dwindling revenues and the need to reallocate budget expenditures to contain the
pandemic.
And although the government’s
pandemic
response is a work in progress, its success so far illustrates what African countries can achieve despite tight resource constraints.
Finally, it is too early to judge the
pandemic
response mounted by Ethiopia and other African countries because governments still have to scale up their efforts to tackle the inevitable “surge” stage of the crisis.
But one lesson is already clear: African governments’ COVID-19 strategies must reflect the local context, the evolving nature of the pandemic, binding resource constraints, and weak international collaboration.
Before the pandemic, children in low-income countries were nearly 14 times more likely than children in high-income countries to die before the age of five, owing largely to pneumonia and other acute infections.
While the growing COVID-19
pandemic
could strengthen nationalism and isolationism and accelerate the retreat from globalization, the outbreak also could spur a new wave of international cooperation of the sort that emerged after World War II.
A clear parallel between the COVID-19
pandemic
and climate change is becoming apparent.
For example, governments could craft and adopt common protocols for temporary travel and trade restrictions in the event of a potential pandemic, supported by globally agreed-upon early-warning systems and thresholds for action.
Among the most painful consequences of the
pandemic
is that it has or will hit the world’s most vulnerable children and their families the hardest, driving many households that had escaped poverty over the past two decades back into destitution.
The International Labor Organization reports that tens of millions of informal workers have already become unemployed as a result of the
pandemic.
Moreover, a
pandemic
makes this especially likely.
Yet the vast majority of those funds will go to those who are already best able to cope with the
pandemic.
Let this
pandemic
be the moment when we commit to genuine, enduring change.
Mobilizing Development Banks to Fight COVID-19NEW YORK/PARIS – There is no historical precedent for the current worldwide shutdown of most “non-essential” economic activities in response to the COVID-19
pandemic.
In the meantime, the COVID-19
pandemic
will continue to expose and exacerbate existing inequities.
In fact, the number of uninsured Americans has increased by millions under Trump’s watch, after falling dramatically under President Barack Obama; and even before the pandemic, average life expectancy under Trump had fallen below its level in the mid-2010s.
As I wrote in January, Trump’s economic record was unimpressive even before the
pandemic
– and predictably so.
Insofar as the fight against the
pandemic
is akin to a wartime mobilization, the US has been stuck with a commander who looks out only for himself, while endangering everyone else by rejecting science and expertise.
The country is now reeling from a (foreseeable) pandemic, and remains wholly at the mercy of a looming climate crisis, socioeconomic crises, and crises of democracy and racial justice, not to mention emerging divides between urban and rural, coastal and interior, young and old.
Countries with these features have controlled the
pandemic
and its economic fallout far better.
The Real Economic Fallout of COVID-19BERLIN – Governments around the world are pursuing extremely expansive monetary and fiscal policies to combat the economic fallout from the COVID-19
pandemic.
Worse, COVID-19 is the first
pandemic
to have struck a thoroughly integrated global economy.
Infact, the
pandemic
has caused a Great Economic Mismatch: Many sectors that depend on existing production and distribution processes are shedding workers, while others are unable to hire enough.
Indeed, it would be irresponsible for governments to formulate policy on the assumption that the current
pandemic
is a temporary, one-time occurrence.
No one knows how long the
pandemic
will last.
If the
pandemic
is reasonably short, then governments must ensure that they are never again caught as unprepared as they are now.
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