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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Tác giả chính: Saadi Sedik, Tahsin
Tác giả khác: Xu, Rui
Định dạng: Tạp chí
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020.
Loạt:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/216
Truy cập trực tuyến:Full text available on IMF