In a Bloomberg piece, Dr. Kate Orkin discusses policy options for countries during the pandemic and how many arguments against cash transfers are not supported by rigorous evidence.
In a CGD blog post, University of Oxford's Stefan Dercon offers three key lessons for low-regret decision making under extreme uncertainty: collect data now to reduce uncertainty; change and adapt decisions if the data require it; and focus on trust and communication.
The lockdown in South Asia has led to mass migration of people back to their home towns and villages as the work opportunities in urban centres shrink. Researchers discuss the public health risk this poses to rural areas.
Researcher Mahreen Mahmud contributes to the World Bank's South Asia Economic Focus Spring 2020 Edition on how migration data may provide a way of predicting high risk areas for the spread of coronavirus for policy makers (see Box 1.1 in report).
Citing Lukas Hensel's research, a Hargreaves Lansdown story looks at hysteria in today’s market and tells us three things that may indicate when markets will begin to rise again.
The UK Government is asking people to limit non-essential contact and travel to work from home in order to slow the spread of COVID-19, but this relies heavily on individuals complying. A University of Oxford blog asks: will this strategy work?
What should the private sector do to help strengthen economic recovery? How can financing be more effective during the pandemic? A Q&A with Stefan Dercon and IFC Insights discusses how lessons from the Ebola epidemic can inform the private sector’s response to COVID-19.