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Avoiding a Pacific lost decade: Financing the Pacific’s COVID-19 recovery

Rajah, Roland; Dayant, Alexandre (Lowy Institute For International Policy, 2020-12-15)

The Pacific is staring at a potential lost decade. The region has been among the most successful in the world in terms of limiting the domestic spread of COVID-19. Despite this public health success, the grim reality is that the economic and social devastation in the Pacific is likely to be among the world’s most severe and long lasting. Barring an ambitious and urgent increase in outside assistance, ...

The Pacific is staring at a potential lost decade. The region has been among the most successful in the world in terms of limiting the domestic spread of COVID-19. Despite this public health success, the grim reality is that the economic and social ...
Keeping Indonesia's economy afloat through the COVID-19 pandemic

Rajah, Roland; Grenville, Stephen (Lowy Institute For International Policy, 2020-07-30)

Emerging economies almost everywhere need help. In Asia, Indonesia faces one of the most difficult outlooks. Its ability to contain the coronavirus remains uncertain and its economy has already been rocked by a major episode of capital outflows. The principal economic risk, however, is not the old one of a reversal in capital flows prompting a currency crisis, as in the Asian Financial Crisis of the ...

Emerging economies almost everywhere need help. In Asia, Indonesia faces one of the most difficult outlooks. Its ability to contain the coronavirus remains uncertain and its economy has already been rocked by a major episode of capital outflows. The ...
Keeping Indonesia's economy afloat through the COVID-19 pandemic

Rajah, Roland; Grenville, Stephen (Lowy Institute For International Policy, 2020-07-05)

Emerging economies almost everywhere need help. In Asia, Indonesia faces one of the most difficult outlooks. Its ability to contain the coronavirus remains uncertain and its economy has already been rocked by a major episode of capital outflows. The principal economic risk, however, is not the old one of a reversal in capital flows prompting a currency crisis, as in the Asian Financial Crisis of the ...

Emerging economies almost everywhere need help. In Asia, Indonesia faces one of the most difficult outlooks. Its ability to contain the coronavirus remains uncertain and its economy has already been rocked by a major episode of capital outflows. The ...
Emerging from COVID: Policy Responses to the Pandemic

Bland, Ben; Dayant, Alexandre; Edwards, John; Grenville, Stephen; Kassam, Natasha; Lemahieu, Herve; Leng, Alysssa; McGregor, Richard; Mcleod, Shane; Oliver, Alex; Pryke, Jonathan; Rajah, Roland; Roggeveen, Sam; Scott, Ben (Lowy Institute For International Policy, 2020-06-30)

The fight against COVID-19 has been the greatest challenge the world has faced since the middle of last century. As countries have fought to control the disease, they have closed borders, quarantined their citizens, and shut down economies almost entirely. The ramifications will reverberate for years, if not decades, to come. In April 2020, the Lowy Institute published a digital feature in which ...

The fight against COVID-19 has been the greatest challenge the world has faced since the middle of last century. As countries have fought to control the disease, they have closed borders, quarantined their citizens, and shut down economies almost ...