In a critical period for the planet due to the outbreak of the new coronavirus (COVID-19), ENA Institute for Alternative Policies has created an on-line thematic library compiling selected publications from international bodies, research organizations, prominent academics/researchers and other sources.
The library aims at contributing to the understanding of the various interconnected dimensions and impacts of the crisis (economic, social, individual/collective, European & international, institutional, public health etc.).
Αll updates & publications
[WHO]
- Facing mental health fallout from the coronavirus pandemic
- COVID-19 intensifies the urgency to expand sustainable energy solutions worldwide
- People living longer and healthier lives but COVID-19 threatens to throw progress off track
- Reconfiguring health systems vital to tackling COVID-19
- It’s time to play offense – Monday’s COVID-19 WHO briefing
- WHO characterizes COVID-19 as a pandemic
- WHO, UN Foundation and partners launch first-of-its-kind COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund
[Healthline]
[United Nations]
- ‘Urgency to act’ for sustainable development, greater than ever as coronavirus pandemic continues
- As famines of ‘biblical proportion’ loom, Security Council urged to ‘act fast’
- FAO: Coronavirus: Food Supply Chain Under Strain. What to do?
- Countries launch investment policies to counter COVID-19
- OHCHR, IOM, UNHCR and WHO joint press release: the rights and health of refugees, migrants and stateless must be protected in COVID-19 response
- Coronavirus outbreak highlights need to address threats to ecosystems and wildlife
- UN launches major humanitarian appeal to keep COVID-19 from ‘circling back around the globe’
[Εuropean Council]
[European Commission]
- EU coronavirus response
- Coronavirus: Commission proposes to activate fiscal framework’s general escape clause to respond to pandemic
- COVID-19: Commission sets out European coordinated response to counter the economic impact of the Coronavirus
- COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak (overview)
[European Parliament]
[Εurostat]
[ECB]
- Introductory statement & Press conference – 4 June 2020
- ECB announces €750 billion Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP)
- ECB’s Lagarde Warns of 2008-Style Crisis Unless Europe Acts
[Eurogroup]
- Report on the comprehensive economic policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic
- Remarks by Mário Centeno following the Eurogroup videoconference of 24 March 2020
- Statement on COVID-19 economic policy response
[OECD]
- Rescuing SMEs from the COVID storm: What’s next?
- OECD GDP falls by 1.8% in the first quarter of 2020
- Statistical Insights: Small, Medium and Vulnerable
- An Inclusive, Green Recovery is Possible: The Time to Act is Now
- OECD CLIs show biggest monthly drop on record in most major economies
- Evaluating the initial impact of COVID-19 containment measures on economic activity
- Coronavirus data in real-time
- COVID-19: Joint actions to win the war
- Coronavirus: The world economy at risk
[IMF]
- Equity Investors Must Pay More Attention to Climate Change Physical Risk
- The Great Lockdown: Worst Economic Downturn Since the Great Depression
- An Early View of the Economic Impact of the Pandemic in 5 Charts
- Economic Policies for the COVID-19 War
- IMF is Launching a Tracker of Policies Governments are Taking in Response to COVID-19
- IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva’s Statement Following a G20 Ministerial Call on the Coronavirus Emergency
- Policy Action for a Healthy Global Economy
- Policy Steps to Address the Corona Crisis
- Potential Impact of the Coronavirus Epidemic: What We Know and What We Can Do
- Limiting the Economic Fallout of the Coronavirus with Large Targeted Policies
- Coronavirus Economic Planning: Hoping for the Best, Prepared for the Worst
- Fiscal Policies to Protect People During the Coronavirus Outbreak
- Epidemics and Economics
[ΙLO]
- More than one in six young people out of work due to COVID-19
- ILO issues guidance for safe, healthy, return to work during COVID-19
- The construction sector can help lead the economic recovery – Here’s how
- The shift to online learning and skills training shows promising trends and troubling signs
- COVID-19: How social and economic sectors are responding
- COVID-19 causes devastating losses in working hours and employment
- ILO Monitor 2nd edition: COVID-19 and the world of work
- COVID-19 cruelly highlights inequalities and threatens to deepen them
- Almost 25 million jobs could be lost worldwide as a result of COVID-19, says ILO
[Eurofound[
[G20]
- G20 Health Ministers Coordinate Efforts to Combat COVID-19
- G20 Leaders’ Summit – statement on COVID-19: 26 March 2020
[Deloitte]
[McKinsey]
[Academia]
[Βrookings]
[Bruegel]
- Rebooting Europe: a framework for a post COVID-19 economic recovery
- EU debt as insurance against catastrophic events in the euro area: the key questions and some answers
- A green recovery
- Will the economic strategy work?
- Europe needs a Covid-19 Recovery Programme
- An effective economic response to the Coronavirus in Europe
- Three macroeconomic issues and Covid-19
[Carnegie]
- Can Europe Become Stronger After the Coronavirus Pandemic?
- Confronting the Challenges of Coronavirus, Russia Sees Its Worldview Vindicated
- Caught Unprepared by Pandemic, Europe Must Relearn Tough Lessons
- The Coronavirus Is a Test for the West
[CEPS]
[Clausen Center]
[ΕCFR]
- The coronavirus: A geopolitical earthquake
- How the coronavirus threatens a geopolitical Europe
- Europe and the virus: The battle of narratives
- Seven early lessons from the coronavirus
[Fondation Robert Schuman]
- Convergence in Media and Telecom in the face of COVID-19
- Covid-19: European responses, a complete picture
[ICIJ]
[IIF]
[Intereconomics]
[Ιnvestopedia]
[IPS]
- Recovering a meaningful debate about Europe
- Adam Tooze: Time to expose the reality of ‘debt market discipline’
- A leap forward is what the eurozone needs
- ‘Inheritance for all’
- A great equaliser
[Les économistes atterrés]
[MSC]
[Natixis]
- More than just failures of capitalism, there have been failures of government too
- Companies in difficulty after the crisis: The source of many conflicts?
- Debt monetisation and mutualisation or monetisation and mutualisation with solidarity?
- The euro zone’s heterogeneity must be prevented from increasing after the coronavirus crisis
- A “leap in technical progress” after the coronavirus crisis?
- An attempt to identify what might be different after the coronavirus crisis
- Will the coronavirus crisis signal the end of neo-liberal capitalism?
- Coronavirus crisis: The questions that matter
[PIIE]
- Debt standstills can help vulnerable governments manage the COVID-19 crisis
- After its COVID-19 emergency, Europe should issue joint recovery bonds
- A timeline of central bank responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
- Europe is at last channeling Alexander Hamilton
[Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung]
[Valdai]
- What Coronavirus Implies for the Global Economy
- Coordinated Fiscal Stimulus Across G20 Could Help Counter the Global Economic Slowdown
[World Economic Forum]
- The climate and COVID-19: a convergence of crises
- ‘Act fast and do whatever it takes’ to fight the COVID-19 crisis, say leading economists
Οpinion
[Αl Jazeera]
- Paul Mason: Will coronavirus signal the end of capitalism?
- The Shifting Geopolitics of Coronavirus and the Demise of Neoliberalism (Part 1 – Part 2)
[Atlantic Council]
[BIS]
[Bloomberg]
[Βrussels Times]
[Carbon Brief]
[Climate & Capitalism]
[Counter Punch]
[Democracy Now]
[Democratizing Work]
[Deutsche Welle]
[Εconomist]
[European Journal of Psychoanalysis]
[Εvonomics]
[Financial Times]
[Foreign Policy]
[Global Inequality blog]
[Guardian]
- The inequalities exposed by this pandemic are about to get even worse
- How humans have reacted to pandemics through history – a visual guide
- Covid-19 pandemic shines a light on a new kind of class divide and its inequalities
- Adam Tooze: How coronavirus almost brought down the global financial system
- Kenneth Rogoff: Τhe 2008 financial crisis will be seen as a dry run for Covid-19 cataclysm
- Joseph Stiglitz orld must combat looming debt meltdown in developing countries
- Now the world faces two pandemics – one medical, one financial
- Coronavirus embarrassed Trump and Bolsonaro. But the global right will fight back
- The coronavirus crisis has brought the EU’s failings into sharp relief
- Coronavirus forces economics profession to leave comfort zone
- The coronavirus crisis may lead to a new way of economic thinking
- Cities after coronavirus: how Covid-19 could radically alter urban life
- Adam Tooze: Coronavirus has shattered the myth that the economy must come first
- Peacetime constraints ditched in the war for economic survival
[Institute for Policy Studies]
[Jacobin]
- The Climate Crisis and COVID-19 Are Inseparable
- Why the Neoliberals Won’t Let This Crisis Go to Waste
- We Can’t Lose the Right to Protest in the Age of Coronavirus
- Tech Giants Are Using This Crisis to Colonize the Welfare System
- This Eurozone Crisis Will Be Even Worse Than Last Time
- The Left Can’t Just Dismiss the Anti-Lockdown Protests
- Anti-Capitalist Politics in the Time of COVID-19
- Corona: The Inequality Virus
- Coronavirus Has Exposed America’s Digital Divide
- Our Economic Model Is Making Us More Vulnerable to Coronavirus
[Jama]
[Le Monde Diplomatique]
[Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal]
[LSE Blogs]
- There is little evidence the EU’s post-crisis economic governance regime has moved in a more ‘social’ direction
- The economic consequences of Covid-19
- Coronavirus crisis: There is no way back to business as usual in the EU
[Medium]
[Monthly Review]
[New Statesman]
- As we scramble for a quick Covid-19 cure, the virus has settled in for the long haul
- The crisis trap: why the EU must not sideline democracy as it tackles coronavirus
- Why the coronavirus presents a global political danger
[New York Times]
- France Tries Limiting Joblessness to Confront Coronavirus Recession
- For Autocrats, and Others, Coronavirus Is a Chance to Grab Even More Power
[Politico]
[Progressive Economy Forum]
[Project Syndicate]
- The Big Failure of Small Government
- Kemal Derviş Says More…
- Capitalism’s Triple Crisis
- The COVID-19 Debt Deluge
[ROAPE]
[Russia Today]
- Culling’ the old & weak: Eugenics and social Darwinism rear their ugly heads in the Covid-19 pandemic
- Slavoj Zizek: Biggest threat Covid-19 epidemic poses is not our regression to survivalist violence, but barbarism with human face
[Social Europe]
- Waiting for Godot: tackling multinationals’ tax avoidance
- Four scenarios for Europe’s future after the crisis
- The future of work in the post-Covid-19 digital era
- Europe’s failure to address Covid-19 shows the need for a European ‘health citizenship’
- Democracy, authoritarianism and crises
- The economic effects of a pandemic
- The corona crisis will define our era
[Spiegel]
[Τhe Intercept]
- Naomi Klein: How big tech plans to profit from the pandemic
- Coronavirus Capitalism — and How to Beat It
[The Lancet]
[Τhe Nation]
[Vox, CEPR Policy Portal]
- Millions of Europeans could not endure a two-month income shock without generous, targeted, government policies
- Repair and reconstruct: A Recovery Initiative
- Mitigating the COVID Economic Crisis: Act Fast and Do Whatever It Takes
- The European Union and democracy must deliver
- Debt and financial crises: Will history repeat itself?
- Economics in the time of COVID-19: A new eBook
- COVID-19: Europe needs a catastrophe relief plan
[Worldcrunch]
