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What Policymakers Should Ask ModelersCAMBRIDGE – On April 8, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that his state was “flattening the curve” of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It’s a relevant question not only during a pandemic.
With the pandemic engulfing ever more countries, EMs face a mass exit by foreign investors seeking safe assets.
WASHINGTON, DC – The coronavirus pandemic has plunged the world into a dangerous state of disequilibrium, in which the siren call of populist nationalism and the clear, compelling necessity of global cooperation and collective action are locked in (literally) mortal combat.
Meanwhile, Trump’s decision to freeze US funding for the WHO in the midst of the pandemic is less important financially than as a symbolic expression of his “America First” doctrine.
The irony for America is that Trump’s spit-in-the-world’s-face anti-globalism is mirrored in deepening polarization at home, where the pandemic is exposing and amplifying pre-existing inequalities.
But at the same time, China is exploiting the pandemic by flexing its muscles in Hong Kong and the South China Sea.
The kneejerk nationalist response to the pandemic is not surprising.
At the same time, however, the pandemic has reminded us that we are heavily dependent on cooperation among states.
And just as the pandemic is creating a sense of solidarity among US citizens, it can teach people everywhere to make the mental leap beyond their national borders and embrace the idea of global solidarity.
They must now demand that the Trump administration combat the pandemic with a strategy that balances America’s national interests with its indispensable international reach and capacity.
In the atrocity-risk model used by the United Nations, the US checks several boxes: in addition to a runaway pandemic, it is experiencing economic distress, high unemployment, mass protests, natural disasters, and ever-deepening political polarization.
Chile’s Great Pension RaidLONDON – How should families pay for the costs of the pandemic?
Why would anyone with a heart induce households to dip into their pension savings to put food on the table during the pandemic, when kinder, gentler alternatives are available?
Still, US President Donald Trump received 74 million votes after grotesquely mishandling the pandemic (and much else).
A Post-War Playbook for a Post-COVID RecoveryROME – The world is not yet sufficiently alarmed by how much the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the global economy.
But we are oblivious to the job losses and lives upended, especially in the developing world, where the pandemic has barely elicited a public-health response.
Even before the pandemic, much of the developing world was struggling with record-high debt, weak growth, and climate-related challenges.
Poor countries largely rely on informal economies, commodity exports, tourism, and remittances, all of which have been hit hard by the pandemic.
While supermarket shelves in the developed world are fully stocked with affordable food, nearly 700 million people globally were already chronically hungry before the pandemic – and more than 130 million could now join their ranks as a result of COVID-19.
Consider that in just six months, the pandemic has erased a decade of progress in poverty reduction.
When New York City was the global epicenter of the pandemic, downtown Manhattan had an infection rate of roughly 925 per 100,000, compared to 4,125 per 100,000 in Queens.
The COVID-19 pandemic is especially harmful for urbanites in the informal economy, where most jobs are low-paid and cannot be performed remotely.
But while the pandemic has severely affected many superstar cities, some of the industries driving their economies are remarkably resilient, which may help to explain why global stock markets have bounced back.
Similarly, Google, Apple, and Facebook have all performed far better than the economy as a whole during the pandemic.
Moreover, a recent Gallup poll found that three out of five US workers doing jobs from home during the pandemic would like to continue to work remotely as much as possible.
The pandemic has shown us that ensuring a healthy population requires reshaping society.
There are notable differences in how these countries have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Many lack adequate and timely wages, sufficient protective equipment, and even health insurance during the pandemic.
In all three countries, the aggravation of social divisions – and the encouragement of aggression by dominant groups – long precedes the pandemic.
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