Life before COVID-19: how was the World actually performing?

Pileggi, Salvatore F.

doi:10.1007/s11135-020-01091-6

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“…In this section the indices previously proposed are computed for 22 different countries as a case study in the period of observation 2000–2018. Such a time-frame is considered to be suitable to address a pre-pandemic figure (Pileggi 2021 ). The index can be computed for any other country upon data availability.…”

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Holistic Resilience Index: measuring the expected country resilience to pandemic

Pileggi

2022

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This study aims to holistically measure the expected resilience of the different countries to a global pandemic like COVID-19. The proposed indicator has been designed looking at the direct and indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our society at different levels, including health and socio-economic aspects. More concretely, the resulting index has been produced by combining 11 different indicators grouped in five categories. It is actually composed of two sub-indicators that aim to measure the expected resilience according, respectively, to the data available in a given moment and to a period of development. The former sub-indicator depends on the actual values of the underpinning indicators, while the latter takes into account only their variation in a given time. In this paper we address 22 countries among the most affected by COVID-19, looking at recent pre-pandemic data and at the development in the past 20 years. As expected, the combination of the two methods determines contrasting results but also a more comprehensive analysis framework. As part of the lesson learnt, we do expect countries to prioritise the increasing of their holistic resilience to situations of pandemic.

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Holistic Resilience Index: measuring the expected country resilience to pandemic

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2022

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“…Across the globe, the tourism sector has grown into vital production sectors, exclusively generating incomes, absorbing the domestic labour, and connecting other sectors of the economy. Pileggi (2021) argued that economic oriented priorities correspond to positive performance and the tourism sector's past positive contributions to nations development confirm this. Tourism interlinkages with other production sectors within a country generate a strong multiplier, allowing the growth of other tourism linked sectors, promoting the growth and development of business outside its core.…”

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“…The outbreak of the novel coronavirus in 2019, now known as COVID-19, has turned into a significant pandemic (Ozturk 2021 andKoo et al 2020), causing the loss of millions of human lives and disrupting the world's economic and social fabric. According to Barro et al (2020), this pandemic poses the most significant threat to humankind and the global economy since the Spanish Flu of 1918, while Pileggi (2021) notes the pandemic as one of the most traumatic events of recent times. Following its identification and possible origin of location in China, COVID-19 has crossed the boundaries of almost every nation worldwide.…”

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Using a consumer choice model to explain the effect of the newly developed oxford COVID-19 government stringency measure on hotel occupancy rates

Gani

2022

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In response to the unexpected outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), governments worldwide implemented stringent measures to contain its transmission. This study investigates the effect of the stringency of COVID-19 outbreak government measures on hotel occupancy rates in the world’s top ten visitor destination countries. The analysis in this study draws upon the recently developed novel indicator, government stringency, compiled systematically by the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker for March 2020 to March 2021. By adopting a structural consumer choice model, the panel estimation procedure is applied to assess the effect of government stringency on hotel occupancy rates. The findings revealed a statistically significant adverse effect of government stringency on hotel occupancy rates. The findings suggest that although government containment measures had the desired effect of reducing transmissions of COVID-19 and a crucial predictor of hotel occupancy rates in the top ten tourist destination countries, it adversely impacted the tourism hospitality sector through reduced demand for hotel accommodation as occupancy rates plunged. This study's analysis supports the consumer choice modelling approach as it can be considered a relevant analytical framework that is satisfactorily able to explain the adverse effects of governments containment measures on hotel occupancy rates. This research contributes to the tourism modelling literature and complements previous studies in providing an additional understanding of the effect of government stringency measures based on the newly established Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker Database within a coherent modelling framework.

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“…Since its appearance at the end of 2019, the COVID-19 virus pandemic has necessitated certain changes in numerous segments of life [1][2][3]. Whether these changes affect life in rural areas of Serbia is one of the issues addressed in this paper.…”

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Sustainability of Serbian Villages in COVID-19 Pandemic Conditions

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The subject of this paper is to determine how the COVID-19 virus pandemic affected the situation in Serbian villages. The task of the paper is to show the positive and negative consequences that resulted from the pandemic. This would indicate that some of them may represent a new idea, a chance, or would work in favor of the sustainability of the villages of Serbia. In support of objectivity, research was carried out among the population that inhabits the rural areas of Serbia. It examined the extent to which internationally recognized phenomena and consequences of the COVID-19 virus pandemic were present in the study area and considered the nature of their impact on sustainability. The results of the semi-structured questionnaire were processed using descriptive statistics, t-test, and analysis of variance (ANOVA). Respondents contributed to the conception of possible solutions with their comments. The obtained differences in the answers resulted from different socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents, but also from the fact that the villages of Serbia differ in natural and social characteristics. Respondents’ responses are in favor of economic and sociodemographic sustainability, but they do not think in terms of environmental sustainability. The paper reveals several development opportunities, which complement each other and contribute to different methods for sustainability of rural villages in Serbia.

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Life before COVID-19: how was the World actually performing?

Cited by 12 publications

References 24 publications

Holistic Resilience Index: measuring the expected country resilience to pandemic

Holistic Resilience Index: measuring the expected country resilience to pandemic

Using a consumer choice model to explain the effect of the newly developed oxford COVID-19 government stringency measure on hotel occupancy rates

Sustainability of Serbian Villages in COVID-19 Pandemic Conditions

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