Manufacturing in India, Brazil strongly hit by COVID-19: Study

14 Jan '23

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The COVID-19 pandemic strongly affected the manufacturing sector in India and Brazil, while human health, public administration and defense were strongly hit in the United States and Sweden, according to a study which offers new insight into how countries respond to systemic shocks. The construction sector was moderately or strongly affected in all nations.

Unlike other countries, retail trade—excluding motor vehicles and motorcycles—was quite strongly affected in India relative to other sectors, as was the land transport sector, the researchers said.

While earlier attempts to quantify the impact of the pandemic mostly looked only at it in a single dimension, this study, published in PLOS One peer-reviewed journal, explored resilience across a variety of social, economic and political domains in several countries.

''We found significant discrepancies between what experts had predicted would be the most resilient countries if struck with a pandemic,'' Sara Del Valle from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States was quoted as saying.

''For example, we saw stricter governmental pandemic policy was associated with higher political unrest across states within the US, while the opposite was true for states in Brazil,'' she said.

Education played a key role in pandemic response, the researchers found. Even after adjusting for strictness of governmental COVID policies, they found that higher education was significantly associated with lower amounts of political unrest across the United States.

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