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Blog Post
March 18, 2020
The experience of the 2007 global financial crisis can tell us a few things about how low-income countries could be affected by the coronavirus pandemic in the near term, even as we recognize that the myriad economic problems created by the pandemic are almost certainly greater in number and scale t...
Blog Post
March 17, 2020
Since the COVID-19 outbreak began in Nov. 2019 in Hubei Province, China, business activity in the world’s second-largest economy has ground to a halt. China’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which generate 90% of employment, constitute 80% of exports, and account for 70% of GDP, have been hit p...
Blog Post
March 16, 2020
Policymakers should be thinking—and worried—about how COVID-19 is expected to disproportionately affect women and girls. Gender inequality can come into even starker focus in the context of health emergencies. With COVID-19 continuing to spread, what do we see so far—and what can we expect in the fu...
Blog Post
March 13, 2020
Yesterday, the UK government announced it was moving into the delay phase of the national plan for managing the COVID-19 outbreak. Communicating to the public and media what evidence underlies the government’s decisions on these tough calls will be critical to maintaining public trust in government ...