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The International Monetary Fund formation and developed the World Pandemic Uncertainty Index (WPUI) – a sub-index of the World Uncertainty Index– or 143 countries starting in 1996. To construct the index, IMF tally the number of times “uncertainty” is mentioned near a word related to pandemics or epidemics in the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) country reports. So, the level of uncertainty related to the coronavirus is unprecedented. As of March 31, it is three times the size of the uncertainty during the 2002–03 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic and about 20 times the size during the Ebola outbreak.
More https://blogs.imf.org/2020/04/04/global-uncertainty-related-to-coronavirus-at-record-high/
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