About this Book

Introduction. COVID-19 : collective learning from the East / Sumit Agarwal, Zhiguo He and Bernard Yeung -- Containing COVID-19 and the Effects. Economic effects of lockdown in China / Qin Chen, Zhiguo He, Chang-Tai Hsieh and Zheng Michael Song. A first look at China's consumption after coronavirus / Wenlan Qian. Public policy tools to address the COVID-19 pandemic : health versus economy / Hanming Fang. Saving lives versus saving livelihoods : can big data technology solve the pandemic dilemma? / Kairong Xiao. Mitigating COVID-19 risks to sustain growth / Harrison Hong, Neng Wang and Jinqiang Yang. Pandemic and panic : government as the supplier of last resort / Yi Huang, Chen Lin, Pengfei Wang and Zhiwei Xu. Government policies. Six lessons for public health in the fight against COVID-19 / Hanming Fang. Containing the virus or reviving the economy? Survey from China provides an answer / Keyang Li, Yu Qin, Jing Wu and Jubo Yan. Dealing with a liquidity crisis : economic and financial policies in China during the coronavirus outbreak / Zhiguo He and Bibo Liu. Policy Rx for the economy : cash or credit? / Deborah Lucas. The state as insurer of last resort / Joseph Cherian and Bernard Yeung. Singapore's policy response to COVID-19 / Danny Quah. Singapore's coordinated battle against the pandemic / Weina Zhang and Ruth Tan. Ten keys in beating back COVID-19 and the associated economic pandemic / Shang-Jin Wei. Heuristics in policymaking : it's time to figure out what drives policy uncertainty / Xiao Ji, Mengyu Wang and Hong Zhang. What comes to mind : some reflections on COVID-19 / Yueran Ma -- Implications on international credit and trade. The COVID-19 pandemic exposes Asian Banks' vulnerability to US dollar funding / Cyn-Young Park and Peter Rosenkranz. The impact of COVID-19 on Asia and the future of global supply chains / Bert Hofman. International trade has suffered a one-two punch. Can it recover after COVID-19? / Davin Chor. COVID-19 in the global production network / Ben Charoenwong. Post-COVID-19 reconfiguration of the global value chains and China / Hanming Fang and Bernard Yeung -- Concluding Remarks : a post-COVID-19 world. Post-COVID-19, how will we be better? / Danny Quah.