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Governments' Responses to COVID-19
Simon Porcher
119061
https://doi.org/10.3886/E119061V2
2020-04-21
Responding to an
outbreak of a novel COVID-19, governments all around the world implemented public
health and economic measures to contain the spread of the virus and to support
the economy. Public health measures include travel restrictions, bans on mass
gatherings, school closing and domestic lockdown among others. Economic
measures include wage support, cash transfers, interest rates cuts, tax cuts
and delays, and support to exporters or importers. This paper presents a unique
dataset of governments’ responses to the COVID-19. The dataset codes the policy
interventions with their dates at the country-level for more than 200 countries
in the first quarter of 2020 (January 1st – April 14th,
2020). The generation of detailed datasets on the measures taken by governments
is important and can help to generate robust evidence to support public health
and economic decision making.
COVID-19
Public Health
Public policy
World
1/1/2020 – 4/14/2020
event/transaction data
<span>The
database is based on cross-country information reported by the Assessment
Capacities Project (ACAPS; <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.acaps.org/who-we-are/in-short">https://www.acaps.org/who-we-are/in-short</a>),
the International Monetary Fund (IMF; <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/imf-and-covid19/Policy-Responses-to-COVID-19">https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/imf-and-covid19/Policy-Responses-to-COVID-19</a>),
the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA; <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.idea.int/publications/catalogue/elections-and-covid-19">https://www.idea.int/publications/catalogue/elections-and-covid-19</a>), the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO;
<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.unesco.org/covid19/educationresponse">https://en.unesco.org/covid19/educationresponse</a>) and</span> the International Growth Centre (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.theigc.org/covid-19/">https://www.theigc.org/covid-19/</a>).