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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Главный автор: Saadi Sedik, Tahsin
Другие авторы: Xu, Rui
Формат: Журнал
Язык:English
Опубликовано: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020.
Серии:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/216
Online-ссылка:Full text available on IMF