A Vicious Cycle : How Pandemics Lead to Economic Despair and Social Unrest /

In this paper we analyze the dynamics among past major pandemics, economic growth, inequality, and social unrest. We provide evidence that past major pandemics, even though much smaller in scale than COVID-19, have led to a significant increase in social unrest by reducing output and increasing ineq...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Saadi Sedik, Tahsin
مؤلفون آخرون: Xu, Rui
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/216
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF