News

Lockdown fatigue: The declining effectiveness of lockdowns

March 30, 2021

Patricio Goldestein for VoxEU

Non-pharmaceutical interventions have been key to containing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This column examines whether the effectiveness of lockdowns on the virus’s spread and death toll has changed over the past year, using data from 152 countries from the onset of the pandemic through 31 December 2020. Initially, lockdowns are associated with a significant reduction in the spread of the virus and the number of related deaths, but this effect declines over time. Lockdown does not work as a continuous containment policy in the...

Read more about Lockdown fatigue: The declining effectiveness of lockdowns
empower

The EMPOWER website is now live!

March 29, 2021

We are excited to share that the EMPOWER project website is LIVE! Visit http://empower.care/ to see the project's progress so far and our future plans. We have so many great collaborations in the works and we are looking forward to joining forces with all of them to build the world's mental health workforce! 

Congratulations to the team on their hard work in making this website come together. 

Brazilian Debt Jitters

March 29, 2021

Frank Muci for Project Syndicate

Brazil seems determined to test the limits of financial markets' tolerance for debt accumulation. It is not hard to come up with scenarios in which the country's debt burden reaches 125% of GDP or more by 2025.