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Comparing G20’s cash canon in 2020
The world has been suffering from the global corona pandemic since January 2020. Governments have obviously tried to ease the linked economic pain with huge fiscal support packages – as we had predicted. After a year of such spending, we believe it is time to compare these policy responses. Our aim is to compare additional government support by G20 countries as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic in order to show material differences among G20 countries as well as shifts in spending patterns within/ among G20 countries. To answer questions like: How much did governments spend exactly to limit Covid’s economic ... (full story)