The Rise in Inequality after Pandemics : Can Fiscal Support Play a Mitigating Role? /

Major epidemics of the last two decades (SARS, H1N1, MERS, Ebola and Zika) have been followed by increases in inequality (Furceri, Loungani, Ostry and Pizzuto, 2020). In this paper, we show that the extent of fiscal consolidation in the years following the onset of these pandemics has played an impo...

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Autor Principal: Furceri, Davide
Outros autores: Loungani, Prakash, Ostry, Jonathan, Pizzuto, Pietro
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2021.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2021/120
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Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF
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