Coronavirus (COVID-19) Economics

Surge in US unemployment claims cuases Governemnt servers to crash. A man wearing a protective mask walks past the New York State Department of Labor offices in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, NY, March 25, 2020. Anthony Behar/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

The unemployment impacts of COVID-19: lessons from the Great Recession

Stephanie Aaronson and Francisca Alba

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Pedestrians wearing face masks as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), walk next to a sculpture of the world in a public park in Vina del Mar, Chile April 11, 2020. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido

The world economy in 2020—the IMF gets it mostly right

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

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Redesign required: Principles for reimagining federal rural policy in the COVID-19 era

Katharine Ferguson, Anthony F. Pipa, and Natalie Geismar

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

A man wearing a face mask walks across the street, a day after California's Governor Gavin Newsom implemented a statewide "stay at home order" directing the state's nearly 40 million residents to stay in their homes for the foreseeable future in the face of the fast-spreading coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in San Francisco, California, U.S. March 20, 2020. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

Will COVID-19 rebalance America’s uneven economic geography? Don’t bet on it.

Clara Hendrickson and Mark Muro

Monday, April 13, 2020

People are pictured in front of closed shops of a market, as the authorities prepare to disinfect the markets amid the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Abidjan, Ivory Coast March 27, 2020. REUTERS/Luc Gnago

What to do about the coming debt crisis in developing countries

Monday, April 13, 2020

People walk along 53rd Street during the global outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. April 7, 2020. REUTERS/Joshua Lott

Who lives in the places where coronavirus is hitting the hardest?

William H. Frey

Friday, April 10, 2020

A food vendor, popularly known as a "Mama Put", arranges her sets of pots and plates on a table in Abuja, Nigeria, January 25, 2020. Picture taken January 25, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Social distancing unlikely to hold up in Africa without a safety net for microentrepreneurs

Addisu Lashitew

Thursday, April 9, 2020

A researcher prepares medicine at a laboratory in Nanjing University in Nanjing, Jiangsu province in this April 29, 2011 file photo. China has increased its spending on science at a blistering rate and now publishes the second most scientific papers in the world after the United States. But China's scientific progress is no sure thing. Interviews with Chinese scientists working in the West together with data from the OECD and some of the world's leading science academies suggest restrictive political and cultural attitudes continue to stifle science there. Picture taken April 29, 2011. To match Insight SCIENCE-CHINA/ REUTERS/Aly Song/Files (CHINA - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS) - GM1E85S1A9G01

How the CARES Act affects COVID-19 test pricing

Thursday, April 9, 2020

Shoppers wearing protective masks walk through the Historic Downtown Farmers Market during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Los Angeles, California, U.S., April 5, 2020. REUTERS/Kyle Grillot

Farmers markets are vital during COVID-19, but they need more support

Hanna Love and Nate Storring

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

A man walks past closed shops in a nearly deserted wholesale market during lockdown by the authorities to limit the spread of coronavirus in Lagos, Nigeria, March 27, 2020. Picture taken March 27, 2020. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja

Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the Nigerian economy

Chukwuka Onyekwena and Mma Amara Ekeruche

Wednesday, April 8, 2020