Coronavirus (COVID-19) Economics

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Beyond relief and stimulus: More jobs and more skills

Harry J. Holzer

Friday, February 26, 2021

A maze of crude oil pipes and valves is pictured during a tour by the Department of Energy at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Freeport, Texas, U.S. June 9, 2016. REUTERS/Richard Carson - S1AETIZMOIAB

Seizing opportunities for fuel subsidy reform

Victoria Bassetti and Kelsey Landau

Thursday, February 25, 2021

People walk on the esplanade of La Defense, in the financial and business district, west of Paris, France, October 6, 2017. REUTERS/Charles Platiau - RC1B9BB86D30

Class Notes: Food consumption and test scores, CARES Act unemployment benefits, and more

Ariel Gelrud Shiro and Richard V. Reeves

Thursday, February 25, 2021

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How a $15 minimum wage could help restaurants and other hard-hit small businesses

Xavier de Souza Briggs and Russell Jackson

Monday, February 22, 2021

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What is potential GDP, and why is it so controversial right now?

Tyler Powell, Louise Sheiner, and David Wessel

Monday, February 22, 2021

Middle-class well-being at a local level: What role can mayors play?

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST

A boy looks out of a bus window as teachers prepare to board government chartered buses to go back to schools of countryside towns, scheduled to reopen next week, amid travel bans between regions due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Dakar, Senegal May 27, 2020. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Africa faces a hard choice on the SDGs under COVID-19

Monday, February 22, 2021

Students of Government Secondary School Wuse, are seen taking the West African Examination Council (WAEC) 2020 exam, after coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown in Abuja, Nigeria August 17, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

The SDGs are our compass for bolstering Africa’s long-term COVID recovery

Amina J. Mohammed

Monday, February 22, 2021

A small child wearing a facemask is seen at a volunteer food drive in Mountain View, an informal settlement in Jamestown, located in the Cape Winelands District, on Saturday, May 29, 2020. It's estimated that most, if not all, of the households here had no income, due to unemployement during lockdown. Cape Winelands is one of the districts in the Western Cape that has been designated a hotspot area, in terms of people testing positive for COVID-19. When South Africa moves down to Stage 3 of the nationwide lockdown on June 1st, hotspots areas will remain under stricter regulation and surveillance, per the latest government announcements. Photo by Eva-Lotta Jansson/RealTime Images/ABACAPRESS.COMNo Use South Africa.

Figures of the week: Addressing COVID-19’s disruption to African development progress

Leo Holtz and Chris Heitzig

Friday, February 19, 2021

Karneval 2021, Mottowagen von Jacques Tilly, Düsseldorf, Deutschland Düsseldorf, NRW, Deutschland. 15. Februar 2021. Mottowagen zur Klimakatastrophe. Obwohl der Rosenmontagszug wegen des Coronavirus ausgefallen ist, präsentiert das Comitee Düsseldorfer Karneval acht von Jacques Tilly entworfene politische Mottowagen, die einzeln durch Düsseldorf fahren sollen. *** Carnival 2021, Mottowagen by Jacques Tilly, Düsseldorf, Germany Düsseldorf, NRW, Germany 15 February 2021 Mottowagen zur Klimakatastrophe Although the Rosenmontagszug has been cancelled due to the Coronavirus, the Comitee Düsseldorfer Karneval presents eight political Mottowagen designed by Jacques Tilly to travel individually through DüsseldorfNo Use Switzerland. No Use Germany. No Use Japan. No Use Austria

Sustainable Development Spotlight: COVID and Climate – A decisive decade for the planet

Amar Bhattacharya

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Piggy bank in an ocean of coins with gathering storm clouds in the background.

COVID-19’s ‘thundering’ effect on taxes

Rabah Arezki and Grégoire Rota-Graziosi

Thursday, February 18, 2021

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American Indians and Alaska Natives are dying of COVID-19 at shocking rates

Randall Akee and Sarah Reber

Thursday, February 18, 2021

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What does the unemployment rate measure?

Stephanie Aaronson

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Empty swings on a beach in Mauritius

Threats to job creation: Tourism and COVID-19

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Economic impact payments: Uses, payment methods, and costs to recipients

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST

Barpeta, Assam, India. 15 October 2019. Children wash their hands during an event to mark Global Handwashing Day at a primary school on the outskirt of Guwahati.

Closing the COVID trust deficit

Pascaline Dupas, Joseph Doyle, and Karen Macours

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Rethinking workforce development

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM EST

An employee dismantles old solar panels, for e-waste processing, at E-Terra Matter Recovery and Recycling Facility in Festac, Lagos, Nigeria June 19, 2020. Picture taken June 19, 2020. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja

Building African economies back, better and stronger than before

Akinwumi A. Adesina

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Vials of the Sinopharm's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine are pictured in Lima, Peru, February 9, 2021. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda

Rich countries have a moral obligation to help poor countries get vaccines, but catastrophic scenarios are overrated

Thursday, February 11, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic and state and local budgets: Past, present, and future

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EST