Table 1 Web-based sources for relevant policy responses
From: Policy responses to COVID-19: lessons for the global trade and investment regime
Name | URL | Description | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
Policy Response to COVID-19 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Narrative summaries of key economic responses by governments to limit the human and economic impact of the pandemic. Includes 197 economies | https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/imf-and-covid19/Policy-Responses-to-COVID-19 |
COVID-19 IP Policy Tracker | World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) | Information on measures adopted by IP offices in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic (no longer available) | |
COVID-19 Temporary Trade Measures | International Trade Centre (ITC) | Catalog and mapping of temporary trade measures (import and export) imposed by countries in response to COVID-19 | |
Key policy responses from the OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) | Comprehensive catalog of all measures in various categories imposed by OECD countries (includes fiscal and monetary, employment and social and health policies) | |
COVID-19 Government Response Tracker | Blavanik School of Government and Oxford University | Working Paper (regularly updated) with a catalog of government responses to COVID-19 as well as analysis of how those measures correlate to changes in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths | https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/research/covid-19-government-response-tracker |
COVID-19 Financial Response Tracker Visualization | Yale School of Management | Catalog and mapping of individual government economic financial policies introduced or amended to combat the negative effects of the coronavirus outbreak | https://som.yale.edu/centers/program-on-financial-stability/covid-19-tracker |
Global Trade Alert (GTA) | Foundation with support of University of St. Gallen, the Max Schmidheiny Foundation and Prof Simon Everett, the St. Gallen Endowment for Prosperity through Trade among others | Comprehensive catalog of all government measures imposed since 2009, identified primarily by type of measure and whether it is trade “liberalizing” or “harmful” | |
COVID-19 Regulatory Measures | Institute of International Finance (IIF) | Catalog of financial and stabilization policies imposed by developed country markets, as well as the IMF and the G20 |