In answering this question make sure to answer the questions below:
Define economic growth and explain how it is measured?
• Define hockey stick growth and explain how some countries achieved this?
• Describe and discuss the measures put in places by the governments to stop the spread of COVID-19.
• Discuss, if any, the impact of COVID-19 on developed and developing countries’ economic growth (Hint:
you may want to compare the economic growth rates of countries who had a high number of COVID-19
cases to the economic growth rates of countries that had a low number of COVID-19 cases).
• Lastly, discuss whether you think that this COVID-19 pandemic has affected developing countries’ economic
growth along the hockey stick trajectory?
