COVID-19 is the worst pandemic to hit the world since the “Spanish Influenza” of 1918-1919. The pandemic has disrupted the normal course of life, changed human behavior in the economy and market, pushed the health system to its limits, and plunged the world economy into a deep recession. In the absence of more targeted policies, governments largely chose to partially or completely restrict movement (such as the quarantine period of the March-June period in Kosovo), measures which naturally had an economic cost. The economic consequences of these measures are – in spite of the unpredictability of previous years – dramatic.
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