Don’t overestimate the COVID-19 recovery
Oct 15,2020 – JORDAN TIMES – Eswar Prasad WASHINGTON, DC – The world economy has risen from the depths of the initial COVID-19 plunge. But the recovery has been tepid, […]
Bali could build a better kind of tourism after the pandemic
ASIA & OCEANIA Wednesday, 14 Oct 2020 By AGENCY A different approach may now be needed to save the tourism industry in Indonesia’s top destination, Bali. — AFP Relaxnews Covid-19 has […]
No return of workers to offices ‘could cost UK economy £480bn’
Simon Goodley 5 hrs ago © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Peter Summers/Getty Images The UK economy could lose almost half a trillion pounds of output if workers fail to […]
The travel industry won’t survive the coronavirus pandemic without a radical change of direction
Source: Independent UK Travel has therefore profoundly shaped the modern UK economy. Yet for many UK tour agents and operators, the situation could soon prove terminal By Ali Shah The UK […]
How does the COVID recession compare?
Aug 25,2020 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael J. Boskin STANFORD — The historically deep COVID-19 recession appears to have turned the corner in most countries. But current private and official […]
Bill Gates is wrong about coronavirus having the same economic impact as one of the world wars
Bill Gates can see light at the end of the tunnel. In an interview this weekend in Wired, he reckons that thanks to the wave of innovation in treating Covid-19, and the […]
Coronavirus . Stop covid or save the economy? We can do both.
MIT Technology Review Contrary to what you’ve heard, shutting down the country is also the quickest way to get it started back up again by David Rotman April 8, 2020 Francesco Ciccolella In the first employment report after social distancing measures had taken hold in many US states, […]
Restaurants will never be the same after coronavirus – but that may be a good thing
Jonathan Nunn Only a fundamental rethink will ensure their survival in the post-outbreak world Tue 14 Apr 2020 I’ve spent the best part of two years now writing […]
Now or never for global leadership on COVID-19
Apr 09,2020 – JORDAN TIMES – By Erik Berglöf, Gordon Brown, and Jeremy Farrar LONDON — This week, leaders from medicine, economics, politics and civil society are uniting to demand immediate and coordinated international action, in the next few days, to mobilise the resources needed to address the COVID-19 crisis, […]
Coronavirus effect : Swiss industry fears consequences of US travel ban
By Matthew Allen Mar 12, 2020 – 17:41 A United States ban on travellers from Europe has been condemned as “incomprehensible” by leading Swiss manufacturing association, Swissmem. The Swiss-American […]
US-Arab relations at stake
Mar 28,2019 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL At a time when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been indicted by Israel’s attorney general on corruption charges only few weeks before the upcoming Israeli elections take place, […]
Imran Khan, XI Jinping sign 16 agreements to curb poverty in Pakistan; Beijing declines to reveal amount loaned to Islamabad
Beijing: China said it will provide the “necessary support” to Pakistan to tide over the present financial crisis, expand CPEC projects as the two countries signed 16 agreements on […]
Trump’s trade war will do not good – but neither will going back to the status quo
Your editorial reflects widespread sentiment about the manifold idiosyncrasies of Trump’s economic policy – if policy is the mot juste. What you neglect to mention is that American economic hegemony was […]
