https://tcmih.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/142 2026-11-05T11:54:43Z https://tcmih.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/249 National Emergency Response Committee on Coronavirus,NERCC GoK; Ministry of Health Press statement on the current status of the Covid-19 in the country. This is an article published by the government through ministry of health updating the general public on the current status of the covid-19 pandemic in the country... 2022-06-20T00:00:00Z https://tcmih.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/245 Assessing the Economic Consequences of Covid-19 David Vanzetti; Ralf Peters; Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan Tourism is one of the sectors most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, the number of international tourist arrivals declined by 84 per cent between March and December 2020 compared with the previous year, according to data observed by UNWTO. Based on a range of tourist arrivals’ projections, the report quantifies the potential economic effects of the contraction in tourism in 2021. The indirect effects are significant. Due to linkages with upstream sectors such as agriculture, a drop in tourist sales leads to a 2.5-fold loss in real GDP, on average, in the absence of any stimulus measures. Based on three scenarios, one optimistic, one pessimistic and one where the asymmetric speed of vaccinations is considered, the economic losses could range between $1.7 trillion and $2.4 trillion in 2021. The results highlight the importance of the vaccine rollout in getting global tourism restarted and other mitigating measures An article in the journal of the covid-19 pandemic... 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z https://tcmih.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/220 Covid-19 Impacts and Short-term Economic Recovery in Kenya Nechifor V.; Ferrari E.; Kihiu E.; Laichena J.; Omanyo D.; Musamali R.; Kiriga B. This technical report focuses on the short-term implications on the wider Kenyan economy of the COVID-19 lockdown by taking into account several impact channels (labour productivity, export demand and tourism, remittances, internal demand and internal trade costs). It considers the uncertainty of lockdown durations both domestically and abroad and incorporates the government fiscal and spending measures implemented through the Tax Laws (Amendment) Act, 2020, the COVID Spending Plan and the Economic Stimulus Plan. An article published in the journal of covid-19 pandemic... 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z https://tcmih.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/216 Assessing the Economic Consequences of Covid-19 United Nations The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant disruptions in the global economy. By the end of the first quarter of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had brought international travel to an abrupt halt and significantly impacted the tourism industry. For many developed and developing countries, the tourism sector is a major source of employment, government revenue and foreign exchange earnings. Without this vital lifeline, many countries may experience a dramatic contraction in GDP and a rise in unemployment. Using a computable general equilibrium model (GTAP), we assess the implications of the COVID-19 crisis on the tourism sector. Depending on the duration of the global lockdown, the paper estimates the direct and indirect costs of the shutdown for 65 individual countries and regions and 65 sectors, covering the global economy. In some countries, unemployment could rise by more than 20 percentage points and some sectors could nearly be wiped out if the duration of the tourism standstill is up to one year. Further the paper puts forward policy recommendations for governments to avert the worst effects and facilitate recovery. This paper has been written by Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan, Ralf Peters and David Vanzetti under the overall guidance of Pamela Coke Hamilton, Director, Division on International Trade and Commodities, UNCTAD 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z