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21 maio 2020

Portugal é 28º em resiliência

FM Global Resilience Index: The resilience of a country's business environment matters when you're planning where to do business.

Pobres e honrados...

The evidence behind putting money directly in the pockets of the poor: Poor people spend cash grants well. (...)

A review of 19 studies by the World Bank found cash grant recipients did not increase spending on alcohol or cigarettes. In some countries, which only give the grants to parents, there have been arguments that the grants are incentives for women to have children. (...) Cash is also usually cheaper to distribute than food.

"Back to business"

Commission defends gradual return to fiscal discipline to avoid ‘mistakes’ of austerity: The European Commission could start controlling deficit and debt levels from next year, once the recession is over. But the road to balancing public accounts again will avoid the “mistakes” of the last crisis

Sobreviventes do COVID-19

"COVID-19 Is a Delirium Factory": coronavirus survivors describe frightening experiences in the intensive-care unit. ("surviving and getting our life back are two different things")


Our World in Data: Total confirmed COVID-19 deaths (+ charts)

20 maio 2020

Google e APPle

Apple and Google release phone app to notify users of coronavirus exposure: Technology will detect when an app user has spent time near another app user who later tests positive for the virus

The companies had announced the unprecedented collaboration to leverage their technology to help trace and contain the spread of coronavirus last month, and say 22 countries and several US states are already planning to build voluntary phone apps using their software.
Covid-19 Internet Report (ISOC.pt)