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We continue to update our COVID-19 platform, dashboards, research and business impact sections:
COVID-19 Cases Dashboards: gathers up-to-date information on the number of active cases, recovered cases and deaths of COVID-19 by country worldwide. The dashboard shows the progression over the previous seven days. Read more
Africa COVID-19 Market Exposure Dashboard: gathers latest market exposures to the COVID-19 pandemic of Africa’s top export markets. The dashboard assesses how vulnerable export destinations might be to an economic shock from the pandemic. Read more
Asia COVID-19 Market Exposure Dashboard: gathers latest market exposure to the COVID-19 pandemic of Asia's top export markets. The dashboard assesses how vulnerable export destinations might be to an economic shock from the pandemic. Read more
Timeline of Announcements of Government Measures: Analyses the outcome of measures taken by Governments across the globe to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic. Compares timing of measures between countries and along the epidemic path. Read more
Workshops - Webinars
IEC UK responded to the call from the UK Parliament’s International Trade Committee's inquiry on the UK trade approach towards developing countries. The published evidence can be found here. Read more
Virtual Workshop - Economic Impact of Angola's Accession to the SADC-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). Paul Baker and David Vanzetti spoke on the economic impacts of accession to the EPA, and policy implications, followed by questions and answers session.
CNBC Africa Interview - The start of 2022 saw rising energy prices, continued supply disruptions and slower rates of economic recovery, making the perfect setting for inflation to rise. Paul Baker discussed the trend of rising inflation and what is driving this. The key discussion points were on the impact to African countries and what this means for economic recovery in Africa considering the unequal access to economic and other tools supporting recovery. Watch here
Online Seminar - Mohammad Razzaque was one of the panellists at the seminar on how Trade and Poverty has absorbed huge amounts of research over the last two decades but it has failed to provide a definitive general answer to the question “Does increased Trade reduce Poverty?”
Trade Analysis Handbook - International Economics Consulting Ltd in conjunction with ARISE + Cambodia is developing a Handbook which will be used by the Government of the Kingdom of Cambodia to form the basis for evidence-based trade policy planning. A three-day online training was held in March for government analysts and other interested economic/trade researchers.
Online Workshop - Making Technology work for MSMEs - Paul Baker was a panelist at the workshop which focussed on how the application of technology can help small businesses and have a positive impact on trade, jobs, investments and access to markets.
GVC Analysis Training - Neetish Hurry and Paul Baker with Akshay Bolee, Emmanuel Ubachi and David Jolicoeur provided training for Government of Indonesia officials, using MRIO tables and trade flow analysis.Participants were acquainted with the methodology, data collection, data modelling, and analysis through visual tools such as Microsoft Power BI and R.
Other news
We welcomed our new Junior Data Scientist David Jolicoeur to the team.
