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And although communist China is widely viewed as having responded better to the pandemic than the US, democratic Taiwan has done an even better job – and without suppressing information about the spread of the virus.
As with the current pandemic, the effects and costs of climate change are unevenly distributed within and across populations.
It is overshadowed not just by a ghastly winter wave of COVID-19 infections and the prospect of a chaotic no-deal Brexit, but also by a showdown with the governments of Hungary and Poland, which have taken hundreds of millions of people hostage by threatening to veto the European Union’s 2021-27 budget and the pandemic recovery fund.
Merkel has deservedly earned praise for her opposition to outgoing US President Donald Trump’s assaults on shared liberal-democratic values and international institutions, and for her determination in dealing with the pandemic.
But the economic fallout of the pandemic in most emerging and developing economies is likely to be far worse than anything we have seen in China, Europe, or the United States.
If history is any guide, the supply disruptions that accompany the pandemic may soon be followed by food shortages.
And in much of the developing world, the worst of the pandemic is not expected until later this year.
Leaders of the world’s largest economies must recognize that a return to “normal” in our globalized world is not possible so long as the pandemic continues its grim march.
The assumption is that, because of the COVID-19 pandemic that Trump has allowed to get out of hand, more Americans than ever before will vote by mail, and that most of those who do will be Democrats.
The pandemic has thrust governments into a more proactive role than anyone would have imagined just a few months ago.
Belarus’s experience has also shown that people will risk their health to protest against authoritarian power grabs, especially given the authorities’ failure to manage the pandemic, which is another major source of popular discontent.
The current pandemic is a case in point.
Well before the pandemic, China’s hybrid state capitalism underpinned an unfair mercantilist model that distorted the functioning of the World Trade Organization.
Many view the COVID-19 pandemic as a likely catalyst for further automation.
Around the world, people are experiencing a revitalization of their natural surroundings, even as they deal with the tragic human toll of the COVID-19 pandemic.
But long-term success requires addressing the structural problems that fueled public frustration long before the pandemic.
The devastation of the pandemic has temporarily eclipsed such concerns.
The pandemic has forced us to stop and think about our impact on the planet, and to imagine the kind of world we want.
So far, the US federal government’s response has been a series of missed opportunities, beginning with the failure to prepare adequately either to detect and contain the pandemic, or to address the economic fallout.
The Recovery Plan America NeedsBERKELEY – In just a few short months, the COVID-19 pandemic has done massive damage to the United States economy – and the workers who make it run.
Though many states raised their minimum wages before the pandemic, the federal minimum wage is shockingly low, and many of those who lost their jobs were not receiving a living wage in the first place.
Prior to the pandemic, small businesses accounted for nearly half of all private-sector jobs.
The final crucial element of a US economic-recovery plan is significant additional federal funding for state and local governments that are on the front lines of fighting the pandemic and confront major revenue shortfalls.
The critical role of innovation in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic has only heightened such concerns.
In little more than a decade, the global financial crisis, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic have transformed the environment in which they operate – and public opinion is not on their side.
Second, central banks’ responses to the financial crisis and the pandemic have triggered a huge increase in wealth inequality.
The pandemic has laid bare the need for more state productive capacity, government procurement capabilities, symbiotic public-private collaborations, digital infrastructure, and clear privacy and security protocols.
But COVID-19 could turn out to be a once-in-a-century pandemic, as Bill Gates recently warned in a commentary for the New England Journal of Medicine.
How the Pandemic Should Shake up EconomicsITHACA – The COVID-19 pandemic has caused massive disruptions to markets, supply chains, and world trade.
Because the behavioral requirements brought about by the pandemic are novel and have yet to stabilize, we are more aware of them than we are of longer-established social norms.
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