COVID-19 crisis and risk spillovers to developing economies: Evidence from Africa [0.03%]
新冠肺炎危机与风险向发展中国家的溢出：来自非洲的证据
Md Akhtaruzzaman,Ramzi Benkraiem,Sabri Boubaker et al.
Md Akhtaruzzaman et al.
This study provides new evidence on how risk spillovers occur from the United States to developing economies in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results show that downside risk exposures of African markets, financial firms and banks...
African trading brokers in China: The internet, Covid-19 and the transformation of low-end globalization [0.03%]
新冠疫情期间非洲人在华代购的转型：互联网与低端全球化的发展变迁
Gordon Mathews
Gordon Mathews
African trading brokers in China buy knock-off or copy goods and move them through customs via bribery to African ports; this trade, although illegal, brings desired global products to Africa. This paper, based on interviews with African tr...
The macroeconomic impact of COVID-19 in Mozambique: A social accounting matrix approach [0.03%]
新冠疫情影响下的莫桑比克宏观经济状况：基于社会核算矩阵的方法论分析
Rosario Betho,Marcia Chelengo,Sam Jones et al.
Rosario Betho et al.
This study assesses the economic costs of COVID-19 and the state of emergency implemented by the Government of Mozambique. We use a social accounting matrix multiplier analysis to estimate the effects of the pandemic on the economy. Our sim...
Short-term effects of COVID-19 lockdown on foreign direct investment: Evidence from Ecuadorian firms [0.03%]
新冠疫情封锁对外国直接投资的短期影响——基于厄瓜多尔企业的证据
Segundo Camino-Mogro,Mary Armijos
Segundo Camino-Mogro
We exploit the exogenous variation that comes from the COVID-19 and the subsequent lockdown in Ecuador. We estimate a regression discontinuity in time (RDiT) design using official administrative FDI data from January to May 2020. We observe...
The impact of COVID-19 government responses on remittances in Latin American countries [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情期间各国政府反应对拉美国家汇款的影响
Adriana R Cardozo Silva,Luis R Diaz Pavez,Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso et al.
Adriana R Cardozo Silva et al.
Workers' remittances declined sharply as the COVID-19 pandemic spread in the first half of 2020, rebounding in the second half. This paper analyses the impact of containment and economic support measures on remittances sent to Latin America...
Improving the resilience of SMEs in times of crisis: The impact of mobile money amid Covid-19 in Zambia [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情期间赞比亚移动支付对中小企业危机应对能力的影响分析
Wenxiu Vince Nan,Minseok Park
Wenxiu Vince Nan
This study investigates the impact of mobile money (MM) on SMEs' resilience and the associated business outcome in developing countries amid Covid-19. Despite the potential of MM to improve SMEs' resilience, little evidence has been documen...
Patrick Opoku Asuming,Deborah Aba Gaisie,Caesar Agula et al.
Patrick Opoku Asuming et al.
The Covid-19 pandemic is widely speculated to have disrupted the delivery of primary health care in low-income countries. Yet, there is little rigorous empirical research identifying this effect. This paper estimates the impact of Covid-19 ...
Ceyhun Elgin,Colin C Williams,Gamze Oz-Yalaman et al.
Ceyhun Elgin et al.
In this paper, we use a novel cross-country dataset to investigate the relationship between the prevalence of the shadow economy and fiscal policy responses to the economic crisis induced by the pandemic. The finding is that countries with ...
Giulia Barletta,Finório Castigo,Eva-Maria Egger et al.
Giulia Barletta et al.
This study assesses the impact of COVID-19 on household consumption poverty. To predict changes in income and the associated effects on poverty, we rely on existing estimated macroeconomic impacts. We assume two main impact channels: direct...