Joshua Gans does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
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Like many academics who entered our present period of isolation in mid-March, I was not at all concerned about my job and how to continue doing it.
To be sure, I would have to deal with purely online interactions with some 300 plus students but fortunately I twigged to the value of virtual lectures a few years ago.
And here's another article:
Bust-up in BrasÃlia - Jair Bolsonaro's dangerous divorce | The Americas | The Economist
O N APRIL 19TH Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro, climbed onto a lorry outside army headquarters in BrasÃlia to fire up protesters who were calling for a shutdown of Congress and the Supreme Court. Soon after, according to Folha de S. Paulo , a newspaper, he learned that federal police were investigating allegations that one of his sons, Carlos, runs an online fake-news network that may have inspired the protest. On April 24th Mr Bolsonaro sacked the head of the federal police.
Mr Moro's resignation is the biggest political blow to Mr Bolsonaro since he became president at the beginning of 2019. An army captain turned congressman, Mr Bolsonaro rose from obscurity by exploiting anger at corruption. His appointment as justice minister of Mr Moro, a judge who jailed scores of politicians and businessmen as leader of the Lava Jato (Car Wash) anti-corruption investigations, signalled his determination to fight graft.
Italians concerned over COVID-19 economic impact | Italy News | Al Jazeera
The Italian prime minister has apologised for the economic hardships endured by his people during the coronavirus pandemic.
Reopening Schools Is As Much About Economics As It Is About Education
Denmark was the first country in Europe to reopen schools for some students, but the kind of social ... [+] distancing in place makes a full reopening impossible for many schools (Photo by Thibault Savary/AFP)
Schools are key to strategies to end the coronavirus lockdown - but reopening them is just as much an economic decision as an educational one.
And the debate over when the students should go back to the classroom highlights the often unacknowledged truth that schools are as much about childcare as they are about education.
Many things are taking place:
Free exchange - Why the unemployed in America could face a lost decade | Finance and economics |
T HE FIGURES are staggering, even to those hardened by the experience of the global financial crisis. Disney will furlough 100,000 of its hotel and theme-park workers. Uber may slash its staff by a fifth. Fully 26m new claims for unemployment insurance have been filed in America since late March. By April 18th more than a tenth of participants in the labour force were receiving unemployment benefits, the highest rate on record.
How severe will the crisis be? America's unemployment rate rose to around 10% after the global financial crisis and to 25% during the Depression. Recent forecasts, though beset by uncertainty, put the probable peak rate in 2020 somewhere between those figures. Modelling based on recent filings for benefits suggests that the unemployment rate in mid-April may have been around 16%, according to Ernie Tedeschi of Evercore ISI , a consultancy.
Labor economist: Government should guarantee workers' payrolls
From the archives - The Economics of Health (1918) | International | The Economist
It will always be difficult, however, to give satisfactory figures in evidence of the economic value of health to the State, because health is dependent on such an extricable tangle of causes.
Millions feel economic impact of Covid-19 pandemic - Vatican News
The Covid-19 lockdowns have triggered massive unemployment and economic hardship for millions of people across the globe, and Italy has been one of the worst-affected nations. Economic data released this week showed Italy has now officially fallen into recession after its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) dropped by 4.7 percent in the first quarter of this year.
Pope Francis has set up an emergency fund at the Pontifical Mission Societies to aid those being tragically impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. He also made the first contribution to the fund by donating 750,000 US dollars.
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