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Author: Dr Louise St Guillaume*, 2019 E.G. Whitlam Research Fellowship What is life like for people with a disability deemed to have a partial capacity to work? This research shows it is oft... Read more
Latest data and analysis for Australia The implications of COVID-19 are highly uncertain. During this time, there are sizeable benefits for the community and governments to have access to ti... Read more
ABSTRACT Europe faces today unprecedented challenges including increased life expectancy, changes in family structures, new forms of consumption and production, sedentary lives, with a growt... Read more
A financial health check is a report published in June 2020 by Social Ventures Australia (SVA) and the Centre for Social Impact (CSI) that models the potential impact of COVID-19 on the fina... Read more
ABSTRACT The outbreak of a pandemic provokes fear and risk of ill health for all individuals, however, these events pose even more of a threat to people with disability who often have poorer... Read more
A new report published by the Committee of Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA) shows the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individual incomes and employment, well-being of women a... Read more
Author: Jonathan Portes Both economists and policymakers have highlighted the danger that the short-term measures taken to limit the spread of Covid-19 could lead to lasting economic damage... Read more
Governments are taking a wide range of measures in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. This tool aims to track and compare policy responses around the world, rigorously and consistently. EXTR... Read more
Author: Jason Furman The public health measures to ‘flatten the Covid-19 curve’ will necessarily and appropriately impose large economic costs. This column, taken from a VoxEU eBook, i... Read more
ABSTRACT The world is giving more emphasis to look at the effects of coronavirus from the lens of biomedical science. This article, however, tried to look at the effects of coronavirus from... Read more
EXTRACT People living in socially disadvantaged areas and outside major cities are much more likely to die prematurely, our new research shows. The study, published in the journal Australian... Read more
EXTRACT COVID-19 is not only a global health pandemic; it has brought whole economies grinding to a halt. In this briefing note, we provide new evidence on inequalities in the economic impac... Read more
“We are essentially putting a Band-Aid on what could become a larger societal issue,” charity leader says. Author: Maggie Coggan EXTRACT With over one million temporary visa holders excluded... Read more
