COVID-19 Resources

Except for individual advisors' presentations, the material on this page is accessible to the public. A few further resources are restricted to network members only, including an annotated list of network questions and answers.​

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Presentations and interviews from the Africa Region Chief Economist's Office

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COVID-19 CEoG Webinar 1, April 2 2020 

• Recording

• Slides

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COVID-19 CEoG 'Africa's Pulse' Webinar, April 14 2020 

• Recording

• Slides

• Summary EN FR

• Notes from Paul Collier EN FR

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COVID-19 CEoG Webinar 3, April 29 2020 

• Recording

• Slides EN FR

• Summary EN FR

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COVID-19 CEoG Webinar 4, May 13 2020 ​

• Slides EN FR

• Material from Honorable Arkebe Oqubay (log-in required)

• Recording

• Summary EN FR

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COVID-19 webinar 5, July 28 2020

• Slides in English and French

• Summary EN FR

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COVID-19 webinar 6, September 30 2020 (please contact the CEoG Secretariat if you are interested in these materials)​

• Nigeria's economic recovery plan

• Rwanda's economic recovery plan

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COVID-19 webinar 7, December 2 2020 (please contact the CEoG Secretariat​ if you are interested in these materials)

• South Africa's economic recovery plan

• Togo's economic recovery plan

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Interview with Professor Francesco Checchi from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, April 5 2020

• Recording

• Transcript

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Additional material

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• Africa's Pulse - Macroeconomic analysis and projections from the World Bank's Africa Region in October 2020

• Africa's Pulse - Macroeconomic analysis and projections from the World Bank's Africa Region in April 2020

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• No Regret Policies for the COVID-19 crisis for developing countries. "No regret policies are those that are worthwhile to do now regardless of which scenario actually plays out...." 

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• Development Policy and COVID-19 e-seminar Series. ​Virtual seminar series from the World Bank's Development Research Group

  • ​"Supporting Poor Households Affected by COVID-19" video presentation1 presentation 2 presentation3

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• Strategic response plans to the Ebola pandemic from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone (from 2015)

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• Imperial college report "The global impact of COVID-19 and strategies for mitigation and suppression"

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• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine report "COVID-19 control in low-income settings and displaced populations: what can realistically be done?"

  • Frequently Asked Questions about the shielding​ approach​​​

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Understanding the COVID-19 pandemic through data

World Bank  COVID-19 Data Dashboard

 

IMF Policy Response Tracker

Our World in Data

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Economics for Transformation —African focused data coverage of COVID-19