Coronavirus (COVID-19) Economics

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Op-Ed

Language and lockdowns

Kaushik Basu

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Lagos, Nigeria.- In the photos, it shows the streets of the city of Lagos during the coronavirus pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) highlighted the fact that Africa has managed to prevent the "exponential spread" of the novel coronavirus epidemic on the continent. "The transmission of covid-19 in Africa has been characterized by a relatively lower number of infections, which has decreased in the last two months," said the WHO regional leadership.

Africa in Focus

Figure of the week: Socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda

Payce Madden

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Report

Great Transitions: Doubling down on the Sustainable Development Goals

Monday, November 30, 2020

The Avenue

October’s weak economic recovery could be the calm before an even worse storm

Sarah Crump, Alan Berube, and MaryAnn Placheril

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Reports

Essay

Windfall profits and deadly risks

Molly Kinder, Laura Stateler, and Julia Du

Friday, November 20, 2020

Report

Tackling the inequality pandemic: Is there a cure?

Zia Qureshi

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Report

Dislocation of labor markets: What policies to mitigate the shock?

Marcela Escobari and Eduardo Levy Yeyati

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Report

The global productivity slump: What policies to rekindle?

Alistair Dieppe and M. Ayhan Kose

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Report

The future of global supply chains: What are the implications for international trade?

David Dollar

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Blog Posts

Up Front

Hungry at Thanksgiving: A Fall 2020 update on food insecurity in the U.S.

Lauren Bauer

Monday, November 23, 2020

A shopper wearing a face mask looks at grocery items, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at Mall of the south, in Johannesburg, South Africa, June 17, 2020. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

Africa in Focus

Lockdown economics in South Africa: Social assistance and the Ramaphosa stimulus package

Haroon Bhorat and Tim Köhler

Friday, November 20, 2020

Future Development

To ride COVID-19’s green wave, governments must slash fossil fuel subsidies

Massimiliano Cali, Nicola Cantore, Leonardo Iacovone, Mariana Pereira-Lopez, Giorgio Presidente, and Niki Rodousakis

Thursday, November 19, 2020

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Experts

Kaushik Basu

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

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Homi Kharas

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Sustainable Development

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Director - Center for Sustainable Development

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Multimedia

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Global Economy

Reimagining the global economy for a post-COVID-19 world

David Dollar, Eswar Prasad, Marcela Escobari, and Zia Qureshi

Monday, November 23, 2020

Up Front

Big ideas to redesign K-12 for the automation age

Hannah Van Drie, Ember Smith, and Marcus Casey

Monday, October 12, 2020

The World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) officially opened in Shanghai on Thursday under the theme of "Intelligent Connectivity, Indivisible Community" with hundreds of speakers and industry experts sharing their insights on the latest developments in AI. Intelligent robots are displaying on the ground floor of Shanghai Expo Centre, Shanghai, China, 9 July 2020.No Use China. No Use France.

Testimony

If AI takes jobs, humans will need lifelong learning and portable benefits

Darrell M. West

Thursday, September 10, 2020

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