Lives com XP investimentos e com NERI ( Núcleo de Práticas em Economia e Relações Internacionais) da Universidade de Salvador (UNIFACS) sobre a crise do coronavirus
Data recently released on the first-quarter global domestic product (GDP) performance of major economies have showed how significant the impact of COVID-19 has been on economic activity and jobs, with large contractions across the board. The ongoing global recession is poised to be worse than the “great recession” after the 2008-09 global financial crisis, especially from the standpoint of emerging market and developing economies. The depth and speed of the GDP decline will rival that of the Great Depression of the 1930s. But how swiftly will national economies recover once the pandemic has passed? And when will that happen? That will depend on how successful the containment of coronavirus and exit strategies will be, as well as on how cost-effective will be the policies designed to deal with the negative economic effects of coronavirus.
Poder 360 – 9 maio 2020 Renda básica e integração das favelas deveriam ser legados da covid-19 Coronavírus cria ‘tempestade perfeita’ Vulnerabilidade é maior nas favelas É preciso ‘conhecer…
Alexandre Cabral recebe dois convidados - Juliana Inhasz e Otaviano Canuto - para debater a decisão do Banco Central sobre a Taxa Selic. O que isso pode afetar no futuro da economia brasileira.
Le Covid-19 a précipité l’économie mondiale dans un Grand Confinement, pour reprendre l’expression du FMI. En peu de temps, les pays ont été touchés les uns après les autres par la pandémie, chacun d’entre eux étant confronté à un triple choc : épidémiologique, économique et financier. Les explications de Otaviano Canuto, Senior Fellow au Policy Center for the New South, ex-vice-président de Banque mondiale et ex-directeur exécutif au FMI. Covid-19 has submitted the global economy to a Great Lockdown, as the IMF called it. In a short time, country after country has suffered outbreaks of the new coronavirus, with each facing a three-fold shock: epidemiologic, economic, and financial. In addition to dealing with their own local coronavirus outbreaks, emerging market and developing countries have faced additional shocks from abroad. It may be said that a perfect storm has fallen on them.
In a previous article, we highlighted how developing economies have faced simultaneous shocks from their external environment, as pandemic and recession curves have unfolded abroad. In addition to financial shocks, there have been declines in remittances, tourism receipts, and commodity prices . The combination of these shocks with the hardships related to flattening domestic infection curves has configured what we have called a ‘perfect storm’ for developing countries, brought by COVID-19. Recent World Bank and United Nations World Tourism Organization reports have given us a view of how serious these shocks have been. We assess here the falls in remittances, tourism receipts, and commodity prices, particularly in oil markets (with accompanying video at bottom).
FMI projeta quedas brutais de PIB Distanciamento social fica mais difícil Preço de commodities e turismo caem Países precisarão de ajuda externa
This paper assesses the effect of oil revenues on health and education indicators (measures for human capital) in the Brazilian municipalities using exogenous oil price variations. The Oil Law of 1997, apart from to hugely increase the amount of oil revenues distributed to the eligible municipalities due to the withdraw of the internal control price system, broadened its possible uses by the eligible municipalities, including investments in health and education in addition to traditional investments in infrastructure. Since Brazil has decentralized primary education and primary health care provision to the municipalities, we use the oil price as an external intervention in local economies to identify the effect of the non-renewed natural resources in promoting sustainable growth. We also explore the high inequality in oil revenues distribution among municipalities. Similar to the previous literature, our results point to a small improvement of the human capital indicators in the long run. The contribution of the largest oil revenue recipients, however, is null for these indicators.
Both US President Donald Trump and Brazil's leader Jair Bolsonaro face fierce criticism for their response to the coronavirus outbreak. As other nations accepted the advice of experts and went into lockdown to try to stop the spread, Brazil and the United States were almost carrying on as normal. In the UK, Prime Minister Boris Johnson may not have denied the seriousness of COVID-19, but his initial approach of taking it on the chin was a risky one. Could their inaction have cost lives? Guests: James Wallner Senior Fellow at the R Street Institute Otaviano Canuto Former Vice President of the World Bank Dr Bharat Pankhania Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Exeter Medical School
A pandemia do coronavírus se espalhou e dá a impressão de atingir o globo igualmente. Mas o ex-vice-presidente do Banco Mundial, Otaviano Canuto, entende que os países mais pobres terão um caminho longo para a recuperação no pós-crise. Em uma conversa com o economista-chefe da Genial Investimentos, José Márcio Camargo, e com a jornalista Denise Barbosa, ele vai explicar a “tempestade perfeita”.
Coronavirus brought a perfect storm to developing countries - Flattening coronavirus curves of infection and recession will be harder in developing countries - Developing countries have faced foreign capital outflows - A boosted IMF may provide liquidity buffers for developing countries, but debt relief will be necessary to help vulnerable countries manage the coronavirus crisis
Políticas para aplainar a curva pandêmica e ganhar tempo tornam-se essenciais, independentemente de reduzirem ou não o número absoluto de casos infectados. Mesmo que no final das contas o número total de infecções seja o mesmo com ou sem políticas de contenção do ritmo de infecções, vidas serão salvas se a curva for achatada. A curva pandêmica gera uma curva de recessão que também precisa ser achatada. Existe troca entre salvar vidas por políticas de contenção e perdas de produção como consequência de tais políticas? Esse é um falso dilema.
The global reach of COVID-19 is now clear. In a short time, country after country has suffered outbreaks of the new coronavirus, with each facing a three-fold shock: epidemiologic, economic, and financial. In addition to dealing with their own local coronavirus outbreaks, emerging market and developing countries have faced additional shocks from abroad.
Nesses 2 vídeos conversamos com o economista Otaviano Canuto, que com sua larga experiência no Banco Mundial, FMI e BID, vai nos falar da sua percepção dos impactos econômicos e sociais da pandemia do covid-19 na América Latina e o Brasil.
Why every country in the world is facing a challenge of flattening coronavirus curves? Which policies to contain or at least slow the spread of coronavirus have been applied? What must be done to mitigate the recession accompanying containment policies? Is "doing-nothing" economically better?