We developed a Pacific Covid Economic Database to aid in the analysis of Pacific economic responses to COVID-19. The database is in a spreadsheet which is available for download and analysis.
This database has not been updated since 2021, and this page is no longer being updated.
Blog posts related to information in this database
- Vanuatu: taking the pandemic in its economic stride, 5 August 2021
- PNG just ran its highest budget deficit ever – but that’s a good thing, 23 July 2021
- Fiji and PNG: no room to move on COVID-19, 25 February 2021
- Constraints on the Pacific response to COVID-19, 28 August 2020
- What are Pacific governments spending on in response to COVID-19?, 24 August 2020
- COVID-19 spending across the Pacific: the self-funded, the aid-financed, and the constrained, 20 August 2020
- COVID-19: economic damage and Pacific strengths, 18 August 2020
Some of the findings from the Database were discussed in the webinar, COVID-19: economic costs and responses in the Pacific, on 19 August 2020.
» watch the recording
» listen to the podcast
» view presentation by Stephen Howes
» view presentation by Jenny Gordon
» view presentation by Maholopa Laveil
Other useful resources
ADB’s COVID-19 policy database
Griffith University’s coronavirus aid in the Pacific database
IMF’s analysis of the economic impact of COVID-19 on Pacific Island countries
IDA’s debt vulnerabilities in IDA countries document (IDA 19)
IMF’s financial assistance and debt service relief database
KPMG’s government stimulus tracker
World Bank’s COVID-19 debt service suspension initiative brief