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A market closure is different to a recession.
The Canadian federal government’s COVID-19 Economic Response Plan includes tax-related measures. It’s helpful to examine tax supports for individuals by considering the past, present and future.
Some economists are predicting joblessness to surpass the record level experienced at the height of the Great Depression as 22 million people file for unemployment benefits.
Service workers are some of the most at risk of both the coronavirus and financial woes.
We cannot have a healthy economy without healthy people.
The US is gradually shifting to lower-carbon energy sources, but the COVID-19 pandemic, an oil price crash and a likely recession are big speed bumps.
‘Helicopter money’ payments would benefit everyone.
The OECD estimates have Australia less hit than most, but they are only partial and point to Australia’s worst recession on record.
Governments can staunch the current economic collapse without returning to the status quo.
A universal basic income could provide financially precarious people with the money they need. And it would keep money flowing through the financial system.
Citizens around the world look warily at the rates of illnesses and deaths at home and abroad as the economic effects of COVID-19 start to hit.
While the Great Depression reduced inequality and closed the racial wealth gap, the Great Recession of 2009 did the opposite.
With a global recession looking increasingly likely, a finance scholar offers guidance on how to ride it out.
Investment incentives might not be enough. We’ll need public investment and forced increases in wages.
It’s the ultimate bubble news perhaps, but this week the Department of Parliamentary Services put out a circular saying work was underway to ensure Parliament House “is prepared to manage any potential…
Australia’s three-decade run of near continuous economic growth is set to end, with treasury warning of a hit to growth of ‘at least’ 0.5%, potentially followed by a ‘prolonged downturn’.
An economist explains how a virus like COVID-19 could disrupt the US economy – and why it’s too soon to freak out just yet.
The Conversation’s 2020 economic survey points to a dismal year, with no progress on many of the key measures that matter for Australians and an increase in the unemployment rate.
Researchers found that between 2008 and 2016, self-harm rates among Danish teenagers actually decreased.
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, The Open University
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Associate Professor of Business, Boston University
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School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Professor & Greenbaum/Ferguson/NJAR Endowed Chair in Real Estate Policy, Monmouth University