Publication:
Lives versus Livelihoods during the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Testing Softens the Trade-off

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorIslamaj, Ergys
dc.contributor.authorLe, Duong Trung
dc.contributor.authorMattoo, Aaditya
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-17T16:13:19Z
dc.date.available2021-06-17T16:13:19Z
dc.date.issued2021-06
dc.description.abstractThe early COVID-19 pandemic literature focused on the conflict between lives and livelihoods. But cross-country evidence reveals that across countries high mortality rates were often associated with large gross domestic product contractions. This paper shows that the presumed trade-off was associated with lockdowns as the primary instrument of containment. Early transition from lockdowns to testing-tracing-isolation-based containment softened the trade-off within countries and explains the absence of a trade-off across countries. The analysis finds that testing had positive indirect effects on growth and perhaps even positive direct effects. By allowing countries to relax shutdowns without compromising on containment, testing could have indirectly contributed to about a 0.6 percentage point boost in growth. By infusing greater confidence in people to step out and engage in economic activity, testing could have added another 0.6 percentage point to growth. As the world struggles to scale up vaccination in the face of new waves and variants, continued emphasis on testing could help limit infection without recourse to costly lockdowns.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/637661623359741565/Lives-versus-Livelihoods-during-the-COVID-19-Pandemic-How-Testing-Softens-the-Trade-off
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-9696
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/35766
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 9696
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectCORONAVIRUS
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.subjectPANDEMIC IMPACT
dc.subjectLOCKDOWN
dc.subjectTESTING
dc.subjectLIVELIHOODS
dc.subjectINCOME LOSS
dc.subjectFATALITY RATE
dc.titleLives versus Livelihoods during the COVID-19 Pandemicen
dc.title.subtitleHow Testing Softens the Trade-offen
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.typeDocument de travailfr
dc.typeDocumento de trabajoes
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.crossref.titleLives versus Livelihoods during the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Testing Softens the Trade-Off
okr.date.disclosure2021-06-10
okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-10T11:08:32.529743Z
okr.date.doiregistration2025-05-20T02:24:04.940196Z
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/637661623359741565/Lives-versus-Livelihoods-during-the-COVID-19-Pandemic-How-Testing-Softens-the-Trade-off
okr.guid637661623359741565
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-9696
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum090224b0886c74d6_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum33163659
okr.identifier.reportWPS9696
okr.importedtrueen
okr.language.supporteden
okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/637661623359741565/pdf/Lives-versus-Livelihoods-during-the-COVID-19-Pandemic-How-Testing-Softens-the-Trade-off.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeEast Asia and Pacific
okr.region.geographicalEast Asia
okr.region.geographicalOceania
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Disease Control & Prevention
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Health and Poverty
okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth::Business Cycles and Stabilization Policies
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Employment and Shared Growth
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Living Standards
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Employment and Unemployment
okr.unitOffice of the Chief Economist, East Asia and the Pacific Region
relation.isAuthorOfPublicationb768e737-5606-4171-a78d-b9b5e1a41eef
relation.isAuthorOfPublication1e63409b-8428-4de9-8942-70e823b051f4
relation.isAuthorOfPublication.latestForDiscovery1e63409b-8428-4de9-8942-70e823b051f4
relation.isSeriesOfPublication26e071dc-b0bf-409c-b982-df2970295c87
relation.isSeriesOfPublication.latestForDiscovery26e071dc-b0bf-409c-b982-df2970295c87
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Lives-versus-Livelihoods-during-the-COVID-19-Pandemic-How-Testing-Softens-the-Trade-off.pdf
Size:
554.57 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
Lives-versus-Livelihoods-during-the-COVID-19-Pandemic-How-Testing-Softens-the-Trade-off.txt
Size:
106.13 KB
Format:
Plain Text
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.71 KB
Format:
Plain Text
Description:
Download
Collections
Policy Research Working Papers