292 Results for “COVID 19”
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Working Paper
Working PaperInflation in the Time of Corona and War
Jun 2022
Are there alternative, less socially costly, ways to bring inflation down?
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Webinars and Events
The AI Awakening: Implications for the Economy
Webinarwith Erik Brynjolfsson | 12:00pm ET / 9:00am PT
Jul 23, 2020
Technology has played a critical role during the COVID-19 pandemic, facilitating remote work and automating certain pandemic responses. But it has also accelerated technological adoption, and the “future of work” may now be the present.
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Research
The Pandemic and the Economic Crisis: A Global Agenda for Urgent Action
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Article
Pr Kako Nubukpo: « Le Covid-19 montre que les chaînes de valeur mondiales ne devraient pas être des chaînes de dépendance pour l’Afrique »
Sep 1, 2020
Dans le cadre de cet entretien, Pr Kako Nubukpo, Doyen de la Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion (FASEG) de l’Université de Lomé au Togo, et ancien Ministre de la Prospective et de l’Evaluation des politiques publiques du Togo, revient sur l’impact économique et social de la crise du COVID-19 au Togo et sur ses répercussions sur les politiques économiques dont les réformes monétaires et fiscales en cours en Afrique de l’Ouest et Centrale.
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Working Paper
Working PaperInflation in the Time of Corona and War: The Plight of the Developing Economies
Nov 2022
Fears of ‘stagflation’ have come back to haunt macroeconomic policy makers all over the globe
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Article
4 Charts Explain Why You Should Worry About the New U.K. Covid Strain
Jan 13, 2021
Expert warns that it could be a race against the clock as the fast-spreading B117 variant picks up steam in the U.S.
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Article
How Dairy Monopolies Keep Milk Off the Shelves
Aug 19, 2020
Consolidation in the dairy industry has created separate, inflexible supply chains for consumers and commercial markets. When COVID killed commercial demand, perfectly good milk and cheese was wasted.
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Webinars and Events
COVID-19 and the Developing World
Webinarwith Dr. Jayati Ghosh | 12:00pm ET / 9:00am PT
May 8, 2020
Developing countries, many of which appear not to have felt the health effects of COVID to the same extent as Europe and the US, are nonetheless facing severe economic effects as the pandemic pushes the global economy into a recession.
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Video
How Lifting Intellectual Property Restrictions Could Help World Vaccinate 60% of Population by 2022
Apr 29, 2021
As new coronavirus cases surge across India, calls are growing louder for wealthy countries to loosen intellectual property restrictions
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Podcasts
Thea Lee
Jul 10, 2020
Thea Lee, President of the Economic Policy Institute, talks to Rob Johnson about the roots of the COVID-19 economic crisis in America’s dysfunctional labor market.
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Working Paper
Working PaperMyth and Reality in the Great Inflation Debate: Supply Shocks and Wealth Effects in a Multipolar World Economy
Jan 2023
A critical reappraisal of the case in favor of monetary tightening pressed by inflation hawks is overdue.
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Article
“We Are Running a Giant Experiment on Children”: Covid Deniers Put Kids at Risk
Aug 19, 2021
“Just learn to live with it” policies subject children to an experiment with a systemic disease that does serious and lasting damage, warns former NASA and DARPA technologist
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Article
Are American Colleges and Universities the Next Covid Casualties?
Jul 22, 2020
Colleges and universities need to be saved, not only from financial ruin, but also, all too often, from themselves.
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Article
Covid-19 Hits the Dual Economy
Mar 26, 2020
Incomes Destroyed at the Bottom, Profits Supported at the Top
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Article
Felwine Sarr: The COVID-19 crisis demonstrates the need to change track and re-think the world of tomorrow.
Jun 16, 2020
An interview with Professor Felwine Sarr, Professor of Economics at the Université Gaston Berger of Saint-Louis in Senegal, for INET’s series on COVID-19 and Africa