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Enduring the Pandemic: Surveys of the Impact of COVID-19 on the Livelihoods of Thai People
(The Asia Foundation, 2020-09-15)
The COVID-19 pandemic is leading to a dramatic rollback of economic progress across Southeast Asia. While the region has managed to contain the spread of the virus better than most others, the economic impact on the region has been devastating. Southeast ...
Asian Development Outlook 2020 Update: Wellness in Worrying Times
(Asian Development Bank, 2020-09-14)
Developing Asia has suffered as the COVID-19 pandemic persists. Growth, trade, and tourism collapsed in 2020, leading to the region’s first economic contraction in nearly 6 decades. Governments across Asia acted quickly to contain the virus and its ...
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COVID-19’s Impact on Micro, Small, & Medium Enterprises and Tourism in Indonesia
(ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, 2020-10-26)The COVID-19 containment and social restriction measures sent the Indonesian economy into a severe contraction of 5.32 per cent in Q2-2020, the first negative growth since 1999. Faced with a severe policy challenge to reconcile the conflicting imperatives ... -
Covid-19’s Economic Reckoning in Southeast Asia
(ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, 2020-09-25)The Covid-19 pandemic has infected more than 29 million persons worldwide since it was first detected in China in December 2019.2 To date, more than 940,000 people have lost their lives to the pandemic globally. Southeast Asia has suffered less compared ... -
Reviving Tourism amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Asian Development Bank, 2020-09-16)Singapore, a multiethnic country with one of the highest median incomes in the world, is undergoing a demographic shift. Twenty-five percent of the population is predicted to be aged 65 and older by 2030, versus 14.4% in 2019. This demographic shift ... -
Asian Development Review Volume 37 Number 2
(Asian Development Bank, 2020-09-15)The Asian Development Review is a journal of the Asian Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank Institute. ADR publishes research on economic and development issues relevant to the Asia and Pacific region. -
Ramifications of Covid-19 in the Western Balkans
(Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey, 2020-09-15)Like many regions across the globe, the Western Balkans is struggling with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The region’s most salient problems of prolonged political instability, economic stagnation, and emigration of its best and brightest, ... -
Navigating COVID-19 in Asia and the Pacific
(Asian Development Bank, 2020-09-15)Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has unleashed unparalleled challenges. At the same time, it offers a window to rethink Asia’s most fundamental development policies and strategies to address inequality, socioeconomic vulnerability, and environmental ... -
Innovating Governance: Building Resilience against COVID-19 Pandemic and Other Risks
(Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2020-09-15)The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic is the most challenging public health crisis the world has faced in a century. It has overwhelmed global and national health service and disaster management infrastructure and brought economies to a standstill/halt. ... -
Enduring the Pandemic: Surveys of the Impact of COVID-19 on the Livelihoods of Thai People
(The Asia Foundation, 2020-09-15)The COVID-19 pandemic is leading to a dramatic rollback of economic progress across Southeast Asia. While the region has managed to contain the spread of the virus better than most others, the economic impact on the region has been devastating. Southeast ... -
Asian Development Outlook 2020 Update: Wellness in Worrying Times
(Asian Development Bank, 2020-09-14)Developing Asia has suffered as the COVID-19 pandemic persists. Growth, trade, and tourism collapsed in 2020, leading to the region’s first economic contraction in nearly 6 decades. Governments across Asia acted quickly to contain the virus and its ... -
Asian Development Outlook 2020 Update: Theme Chapter: Wellness in Worrying Times
(Asian Development Bank, 2020-09-14)Developing Asia has suffered as the COVID-19 pandemic persists. Growth, trade, and tourism collapsed in 2020, leading to the region’s first economic contraction in nearly 6 decades. Governments across Asia acted quickly to contain the virus and its ...