Dec 10,2020 – JORDAN TIMES – Maximo Torero ROME — The world is not, yet, sufficiently alarmed by how much the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the global economy. We track the daily numbers of infections and casualties. But we are oblivious to the job losses and lives upended, especially in […]
Nov 21,2020 – JORDAN TIMES – Syed Munir Khasru MELBOURNE — COVID-19 continues to have a devastating impact on public health and to rattle the global economy with structural shocks. The pandemic has now killed more than one million people, while the International Monetary Fund estimates that global GDP will […]
CORNELIA MEYER October 15, 2020 Short Url https://arab.news/6etpv People queue to collect food distribution during the COVID-19 outbreak, Manhattan, New York City, U.S., May 9, 2020. (Reuters) The world has […]
Even now, the effects of Covid-19 have been delayed and disguised by the various loans, subsidies and support schemes Sean O’Grady@_seanogrady 16 hours ago Coronavirus, Brexit, a crisis in the public finances, international trade wars… any one of these would be sufficient to ensure a sharp if not prolonged economic recession. But […]
How expanding opportunity for women, immigrants and nonwhite workers helped everyone — and why we need to do so again. Credit…AJ Dungo By Jim Tankersley Mr. Tankersley covers economic policy in […]
Visitor numbers expected to plummet by tens of millions in crisis that eclipses the 2004 tsunami, bird flu and Sars Koh Samui’s beaches are almost entirely devoid of people since […]
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries, INSEAD Distinguished Clinical Professor of Leadership Development and Organisational Change | April 23, 2020 Having exposed society’s dysfunction, the COVID-19 crisis invites us to rethink our […]
AHMED DANYAL ARIF ECONOMICS 29th June 2020 Ahmed Danyal Arif, UK Despite many prior warnings, a number of developed countries were clearly unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic. This monumental failure of […]
Businesses are being forced to close as social distancing to avoid COVID-19 takes hold Timothy Fadek—Redux By Alana Semuels March 18, 2020 Sonia Bautista was living paycheck to paycheck […]
The sooner we open up the economy, the faster we simply recreate what got us into this mess. It’s time for a radical shift. Douglas Rushkoff Everyone wants to know when we’re going to get the economy started up again, and just how many lives we’re willing to surrender […]
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, […]
If employers know that the government’s payroll support will be suddenly cut off at the end of June it’s inevitable that many will be thinking of starting to shed staff now https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/coronavirus-uk-job-cuts-furlough-unemployment-redundant-treasury-a9489881.html?jwsource=cl (video link) Ben Chu @Benchu_ 12 hours ago The historian AJP Taylor argued that the […]
Short Url https://arab.news/ggd4z Frank Kane April 11, 2020 Pandemic will spark innovation in agriculture, education and health DUBAI: It has been said time and again in the course of the […]
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, […]
Organised crime groups offer support to quarantined families who have run out of cash As Italy struggles to pull its economy through the coronavirus crisis, the Mafia is gaining local […]
Source: Independent Of course, some lives will tragically be lost. But we need those 4.2 million people to return to work, forming a mini-economy run by and for the young […]
A DER SPIEGEL Editorial By Christiane Hoffmann Some in Germany have the impression that the country can survive a long-term lockdown without suffering any grave consequences. That thinking is dangerous. […]
Source: MSN MEXICO CITY — There were major hurricanes, and the global financial crisis of 2008. There was 9/11, and an array of regional health scares, from SARS to Zika. But during the decades that he’s been involved in the tourism business in the Caribbean island nation of Sint […]
How deadly is the coronavirus? How much of the population has already been infected? How widespread is immunity? The models politicians are relying on to make radical decisions in the […]
Coronavirus fuelling faster collapse than 1930s, warns ex-Bank of England rate-setter Unemployment in Britain and the US could surpass the levels reached during the 1930s Great Depression within months […]