Anticipating international economic challenges in a post-pandemic world
IISD Trade and Sustainability Review
2020
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42-46
epidemic disease ; economic recovery ; macroeconomics
Economic development
English
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"How can trade and investment government policy-makers access accurate, timely, and helpful economic advice at a time when structural relationships are changing quickly and accurate information takes time to collect?
In such an uncertain environment, using economic models to forecast variables like production in individual economies or markets will probably produce inaccurate and misleading results. After all, the assumptions and parameters used in such models are most likely not reliable in today's environment. "
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