01991cas a2200313 a 4500 AALejournalIMF022277 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 18.00 USD 9781513573434 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Bakker, Bas. COVID-19 in Latin America : A High Toll on Lives and Livelihoods / Bas Bakker, Carlos Goncalves. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2021. 1 online resource (60 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Latin America was hit hard by Covid-19, both in terms of lives and livelihoods. Early lockdowns in the second quarter of 2020 prevented an explosion of deaths at the time but did not stop the pandemic from later wreaking havoc in the region. This paper investigates the dynamics of pandemics in Latin America and how it differed from elsewhere. We probe the role of non-pharmaceutical interventions; the effectiveness (or lack of thereof) lock-downs in Latin America; which structural factors contributed to the high death toll in Latin America, and the extent to which the epidemic harmed the economy. Finally, we briefly analyze the roots of the second-waves that started in the fourth quarter of 2020. Mode of access: Internet Demographic Economics imf Foreign Exchange imf Health Behavior imf Informal Economy imf Underground Econom imf Goncalves, Carlos. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2021/168 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2021/168/001.2021.issue-168-en.xml IMF e-Library