Save lives or save livelihoods? A cross-country analysis of COVID-19 pandemic and economic growth

• Main Authors: Feng, Qu, Wu, Laura Guiying, Yuan, Mengying, Zhou, Shihao
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::Economic theory; Covid-19; Pandemic Containment Effectiveness
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/161627
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper studies whether containing COVID-19 pandemic by stringent strategies deteriorates or saves economic growth. Since there are country-specific factors that could affect both economic growth and deaths due to COVID-19, we first start with a cross-country analysis on identifying risk and prot...