COVID-Economics Links (March 28)

Daily links about the economic consequences of COVID including some new proposals for policies:

• Cross-country correlation analysis for research on COVID-19 - VoxEU.org
• Viral protectionism in the time of coronavirus - World Bank Blog
• COVID-19: The economic policy response - VoxEU.org
• Coronavirus and global finance - FT.com
• ECB orders banks to freeze dividends and share buybacks - FT.com
• The economic impact of coronavirus on UK businesses: Early evidence from the Decision Maker Panel - VoxEU.org
• Future imperfect after coronavirus - VoxEU.org
• How Africa’s Economies Can Hedge Against COVID-19- Ibrahim Assane Mayak
• Economic Policies to Combat COVID-19 in Africa - Celestin Monga
• Does India have enough doctors? - Brookings
• Awakening in the post-pandemic world - Dennis J Snower, Brookings
• The IMF and COVID-19 - IMF
• Creating an EU ‘Corona Panel’: Standardised European sample tests to uncover the true spread of the coronavirus - VoxEU.org
• Coronavirus Pushes Some Emerging Markets to Brink of Default - WSJ.com