A Note on the Role of Cultural, Institutional, and Urbanization Features in the COVID-19 Pandemic

IF 5.3 3区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Asian Economic Papers Pub Date : 2020-11-09 DOI:10.1162/asep_a_00798

Pengfei Li, Ming Lu, Yilin Zheng

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Countries have taken different approaches to controlling COVID-19. Analyzing the costs and benefits of different policies, Sachs (2020) has concluded that the total cost of using either low-cost epidemic control measures (e.g., hygiene, testing/tracing/isolating, travel restrictions) or high-cost control measures (e.g., economic shutdown) is lower than the cost of not controlling the epidemic at all. Sachs also found that low-cost policies in the AsiaPacific region are more effective than high-cost ones in the North Atlantic region. Sachs has therefore proposed that the North Atlantic region should learn from the best low-cost practices of the Asia-Pacific region in suppressing the COVID-19 epidemic.

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关于文化、制度和城市化特征在新冠肺炎大流行中的作用的说明

各国采取了不同的方法来控制COVID-19。Sachs(2020)分析了不同政策的成本和收益，得出结论认为，采用低成本的流行病控制措施(如卫生、检测/追踪/隔离、旅行限制)或高成本的控制措施(如经济关闭)的总成本低于根本不控制疫情的成本。萨克斯还发现，亚太地区的低成本政策比北大西洋地区的高成本政策更有效。因此，萨克斯建议，北大西洋地区应学习亚太地区在遏制新冠肺炎疫情方面的最佳低成本做法。

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Asian Economic Papers ECONOMICS-

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