How different will this time be? Assessing the prospects for economic recovery from the Covid-19 crisis

Begg, Iain ORCID: 0009-0004-1518-0187 and Qian, Jun (2020) How different will this time be? Assessing the prospects for economic recovery from the Covid-19 crisis. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog (23 Apr 2020). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Covid-19 has already generated a sharp fall in global GDP and a rapid rise in unemployment, but what kind of recovery can we expect once the crisis passes? Iain Begg and Jun Qian write that in the most optimistic scenario, the world will experience a return to trend growth once lockdowns are lifted. The more worrying possibilities are that a short-lived recovery could be followed by a further downturn, or that the outbreak could wipe out economic capacity permanently in some countries, with trend growth resuming from a lower base.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Author(s)
Divisions:	European Institute
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Date Deposited:	07 May 2020 15:03
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 20:02
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/104304

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