IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijbsre/v15y2021i1p1-13.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Covid-19, economy and the 'drop of honey effect' metaphor - a note on the Portuguese case. Situation and measures

Author

Listed:
  • José António Filipe

Abstract

Covid-19 appeared in Wuhan (China), by December 2019 and rapidly spread to the rest of the world. Many countries adopted measures against its spread to protect people and national healthcare services. However, at the moment, more than 2.5 million people got infected and more than 175 thousand died in the 213 countries, areas and territories reached by the disease (official records at April 23, 2020). Countries began to adopt also measures to protect the economy and to prepare the economic recovery, once the effects are tremendous worldwide. In Portugal, measures allowed a flattered curve for Covid-19 spread. In this paper, we use an analogy to the 'drop of honey effect' to show how this curve develops. The 'drop of honey effect' is studied in terms of chaos theory and dynamic systems and is used as a framework to the way systems change in social phenomena.

Suggested Citation

  • José António Filipe, 2021. "Covid-19, economy and the 'drop of honey effect' metaphor - a note on the Portuguese case. Situation and measures," International Journal of Business and Systems Research, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 15(1), pages 1-13.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbsre:v:15:y:2021:i:1:p:1-13
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=111792
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Jose Antonio Filipe, 2022. "A Note on COVID-19 and the ‘Drop of Honey Effect’ – Risk Management in a Strong Uncertainty Environment," International Journal of Finance, Insurance and Risk Management, International Journal of Finance, Insurance and Risk Management, vol. 12(2), pages 35-37.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijbsre:v:15:y:2021:i:1:p:1-13. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=206 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.