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Chapter 1 argues that fiscal policies are at the forefront of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fiscal measures can save lives, protect the most-affected people and firms from the economic impact of the pandemic, and prevent the health crisis from turning into a deep long-lasting slump. A key priority is to fully accommodate spending on health and emergency services. Global coordination is for a universally low-cost vaccine and to support countries with limited health capacity. Large, temporary and targeted support is urgently needed for affected workers and firms until the emergency abates. As the shutdowns end, broad-based, coordinated fiscal stimulus-where financing conditions permit-will become more effective in fostering the recovery. Chapter 2 argues that fiscal policies are at the forefront of facilitating an economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic once the Great Lockdown ends. Policymakers can achieve this objective with IDEAS: Invest for the future-in health systems, infrastructure, low carbon technologies, education, and research; adopt well-planned Discretionary policies that can be deployed quickly; and Enhance Automatic Stabilizers, which are built-in budgetary tax and spending measures that automatically stabilize incomes and consumption. Importantly, improving unemployment benefit systems and social safety nets can protect household incomes from adverse shocks and strengthen resilience against future epidemics. Over the past decade, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have doubled in importance among the world's largest corporations. They often deliver basic services such as water, electricity, and loans for families and small businesses. At their best, they can help promote higher economic growth and achieve development goals. However, many are a burden to taxpayers and the economy. Chapter 3 discusses what governments can do to get the most out of SOEs. This includes ensuring the firm's managers have the right incentives and there is effective oversight. It also requires a high degree of transparency of their activities.
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El 15 de marzo del 2020 marcó un antes y un después en nuestras vidas con el coronavirus como gran protagonista a nivel internacional. Nos acostamos un domingo por la noche, después de haber disfrutado del fin de semana al aire libre, y amanecimos encerrados en nuestras casas durante un periodo de tres meses. La población andaba perdida y las fake news se expandían a mayor velocidad que la transmisión del virus. Este libro presenta un total de cincuenta y dos artículos que, recogidos a lo largo de un año de pandemia, ofrecen al lector un dibujo del panorama vivido y de las inquietudes por las que hemos pasado. Desde las primeras medidas de protección individual (mascarilla sí, mascarilla no; cierre total sí versus cierre parcial mejor) a los primeros datos sobre la sintomatología de los enfermos o los tratamientos que se empezaron a aplicar sin conocer exactamente sus bondades. Investigaciones sobre el origen del virus, las promesas de que las vacunas iban a estar listas en breve¿ tantos interrogantes planteados a lo largo de unos meses que han ido pasando, situándonos en una rápida desescalada y, casi sin darnos cuenta, en la segunda ola después del verano.Poco después llegó Navidad y, tras ella, sin apenas margen temporal, la tercera ola, la cuarta y la quinta al inicio del verano, cuando gran parte de la población estaba vacunada y pensábamos que el verano era nuestro. Pero después de estos contagios sucesivos se nos plantean muchas dudas distintas. Todos estos temas son los que hemos plasmado en Retos COVID-19 y que inspiran este libro, siendo la vía diseñada para canalizar con rigor la correcta información a través de webinars, una página específica dentro de la web de la Fundación QUAES y newsletters semanales.
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1943. Depuis deux ans, Alex Beaumont s'est retiré sur l'île de Wight, où il exerce la médecine. Shanghai n'est plus qu'un souvenir, Isaure D'Argreen et la LCS, des fantômes. Kathleen a renoué avec lui des liens amoureux. Mais son passé va le rattraper sous une forme inattendue. Et la traque de la vérité sur la mort de son père, la recherche des souches du virus de 1918 vont reprendre. De l'île de Wight au cœur du IIIe Reich, où la machine de guerre allemande prépare en grand secret une nouvelle grippe espagnole, Alex se jette à corps perdu dans la bataille...
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"Dans ce recueil, entre journal de bord et littérature, Jacinthe Mazzocchetti fait chronique des bouleversements vécus durant les temps suspendus de pandémie. Empêcher l'oubli des premières émotions, des premières sensations, des premiers cris. Garder trace de ce que nous avons traversé pour que demain ne soit pas la réplique mortifère de ce monde à la dérive que nous ne parvenons plus à écouter, à ressentir, à respecter."--Page 4 of cover
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The COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted an unprecedented shock on the global economy and created an enormous demand for Fund resources. To accelerate processing and approval of members' requests in such circumstances, the paper proposes measures to expedite Board consideration and approval of requests for purchases and/or disbursements under the Rapid Financing Instrument and/or the Rapid Credit Facility, respectively, completion of reviews and requests for changes in access in existing arrangements, and requests for assistance under the Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust (CCRT), by shortening the circulation period for Board documents. The paper also proposes extending the use of the shortened circulation period to selected Article IV consultations necessary for use of Fund resources during a global pandemic. Management will also streamline internal procedures to accelerate program processing and reduce the burden on the Fund's administrative capacity, and will seek the support of creditors to expedite the processing of financial transactions under COVID-19 emergency financing.
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The worldwide imposed lockdowns forced schools and universities to digitise conventional teaching in a very short time and to convert teaching and learning formats partially or completely to Distance Learning. The changes in everyday teaching brought by Distance Learning were felt worldwide. With 22 double blind peerreviewed articles of researchers reporting on 17 different countries, the editors of this book want to shed light on the effects of Distance Learning in different regions of the world. This will allow for a value-free comparison of how the COVID-19 pandemic has been addressed in education in different parts of the world and what impacts it has had, is having or may have in the future.
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« Ce n'est pas la Covid-19 qui a mis le monde à terre, mais la psychose provoquée par ce virus. »Renaud Girard, Jean-Loup Bonnamy L'émotion désordonnée avec laquelle les États-Unis et la plupart des grands pays d'Europe occidentale ont réagi à l'épidémie de Covid-19 restera dans l'Histoire comme un bel exemple de psychose collective. Dans l'adoration de ce nouveau veau d'or qu'est le 'principe'de précaution, nous avons foulé aux pieds les valeurs les plus sacrées pour lesquelles se sont battus nos aînés. Renaud Girard et Jean-Loup Bonnamy livrent ici une réflexion d'ensemble largement nourrie de données internationales sur les conséquences médicales, sociales et économiques de l'événement.
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the August 2020 coup d'etat have disrupted more than half a decade of strong economic performance, during which growth averaged 5 percent.1 Growth is projected to decline from 5 percent to -2 percent in 2020 both on account of the pandemic (reflecting a slowdown in external demand, travel, and FDI, as well as the impact of uncertainty and reduced mobility on domestic demand) and of post-coup disruptions in trade, transport, economic and financial flows following the sanctions imposed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Inflation accelerated slightly in recent months but is expected to remain below 2 percent, while the current account deficit is projected to narrow due to higher gold prices (main export) and lower oil prices (main import). Risks around the outlook are exceptionally high in light of the uncertainty surrounding the political transition, the impact of the sanctions on trade and overall activity, and continued deterioration in the security situation. Weak social safety nets amid high informality, food insecurity and a fragile healthcare system exacerbate challenges.
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