The repository studies the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic in the Asia-Pacific region from the economic and epidemiological standpoint.
We use data for mortality and cases from the John Hopkins university. The stringency index comes from the University of Oxford. Economic variables are from IMF and other international organizations databases.
In April, most of the countries in the region were affected by the pandemic. In October, instead, the majority of the cases was located in South Asia.
Countries that re-opened before the flattening of the pandemic curve (e.g. India, Indonesia and Philippines) experienced a substantial increseas of cases in the summer. In contrast, countries that re-opened after the flattening of the curve, had relatively few cases.
Countries in the region responded with a mixture of monetary and fiscal easing. In addition, they used the exchange rate as a shock absorber, although in a reduced way compared to the Global Financial Crisis.
Umberto Collodel
R
The prepare scripts cleans the global environment and loads all packages required. Individual scripts study the evolution of each variable and produce relative visualization.