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Larkin, Ashling, Rebecca Horner, Zu Dominiak, and Catriona Laird. Pandemic Tales: Responses to Covid-19 and Lockdown. Edited by Chris Murray and Divya Jindal-Snape. University of Dundee, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.20933/100001241.
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Since 2016 the Scottish Centre for Comics Studies has produced a number of public information comics, many of them dealing with healthcare issues and science communication. This has been part of a research project looking into the educational potential of comics. We believe that comics, which combine words and images, engage readers in unique ways that can aid understanding. The medium is highly effective at communicating ideas clearly, but also provoking emotional, intellectual and imaginative responses. When the Coronavirus pandemic took hold in early 2020, sending the world into lockdown, we decided to create an anthology comic to help people reflect upon the impact of the virus. We wanted to capture the important transitions that everyone was making, and to tell the stories of the communities, groups, and individuals who were doing amazing things to help themselves and others. We sought to tell the stories of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. We also wanted to highlight the University of Dundee’s response. This has included scientists working to assist the global effort to find a vaccine, nursing students join the front line by completing their studies in practice, the creation of the Scrub Hub, which saw a partnership between the university, business and the public to create much needed PPE, creating guidance material and resources in partnership with British Psychological Society to support children and young people, school staff and families with educational and life transitions, and many other activities. In light of these inspiring tales of dedication and determination the comics team mobilised to help tell these stories in the best way we know how – through a comic! Pandemic Tales: Responses to Covid-19 and Lockdown collects stories about these strange and challenging times. During the pandemic and lockdown the stories created for this anthology were released individually as webcomics on the Scottish Centre for Comics Studies website and some through blogs published by the Transformative Change: Educational and Life Transitions (TCELT) Research Centre. These stories have now been collected here in one volume. Many thanks to all those who supported this project, from all the writers and artists creating the comics, to Professor John Rowan, Dr Clive Randall and Kaye Lister at the University of Dundee, who assisted with funding the project. We dedicate this comic to all those who we have lost to the pandemic, to everyone who has struggled through illness and the pressures of lockdown, and to all the scientists and healthcare workers around the world who have worked so hard to keep us safe. We are excited to share these stories with you, and there are many more to follow! Chris and Divya
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Hukić, Mirsada, and Mirza Ponjavić. COVID-19 pandemic in Bosnia and Herzegovina: March – June 2020. Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5644/pi20.190.00.
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At the end of 2019 the world became aware of the existence of a new virus stemming from the Coronaviridae family and causing a specific disease – COVID-19. In less than three months, the virus and its consequences, developed from being a local public health problem in China to a daunting global problem we all had to face. On March 11, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic of COVID-19. On the international scale, even in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), the response of the professionals and scientists has been rapid, although not always consistently efficient enough. Despite the selfless cooperation of scientists and practitioners worldwide, countries with developed economies, good public health and a strong scientific system have had the advantage in the fight against the disease over developing countries. Despite the fact that by these criteria BiH is not one of the most resilient countries, so far, its response to the pandemic has seemed to be satisfactory. The Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ANUBiH) was one of the first institutions of the science system to respond to the pandemic. On the initiative and under the leadership of academician Mirsada Hukić, on March 22, 2020 the development of the project "Epidemic Location Intelligence System (ELIS)" and its Geoportal began on a voluntary basis, with the task of permanently monitoring the spread of COVID-19. Theoretical and professional parts of the project in the areas of medicine, public health and informatics were completed by April 2, 2020. Thanks to the support to the project by the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Šefik Džaferović, the expert system received additional hardware support and was filled in time with data from across the country. This enabled the system to become operational as early as on April 8, 2020. The results of all these efforts are visible in this publication. Initially, the ELIS project was important for the epidemiological and public health area. The abundance of collected data and obtained virus samples enabled the extension of the project idea to the sequencing of viruses found in BiH and their typology. The transition of research to the clinical aspects of COVID-19 is the next phase in the development of the ELIS project. ANUBiH has already started the work on examining the economic and pedagogical consequences of COVID-19 in order to look at this medical phenomenon in the broadest possible context. All the results of ANUBiH in response to the epidemic challenges of COVID-19 are achieved due to the synergistic action of numerous individuals and institutions in different fields of science and public health in cooperation with government. Therefore, I believe that the ELIS project has shown the way to go in solving the burning problems of our society which we will encounter in the future.
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Cvek, Sven. Reading COVID-19 in the Anglo-American context. Edited by Jelena Šesnić. Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu - FF Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.17234/wpas.2021.
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The fifth volume of Working Papers in American Studies brings together a selection of works based on presentations delivered at the 2020 American Studies Workshop. Held at the University of Zagreb in September 2020, the workshop designated as its theme the cultural aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic and assembled in what was at the time a new, hybrid format, a plethora of international and national scholars. As this volume shows, the workshop manifested a particularly strong presence of doctoral students. We present the texts as an illustration of the early perspectives on the pandemic, currently in its second year and clearly inviting further considerations in terms of its manifold repercussions – health and medical, political, geo-political, economic, moral and ethical.
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Demirguc-Kunt, Asli, Michael Lokshin, and Ivan Torre. The Sooner, the Better: The Early Economic Impact of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions during the COVID-19 Pandemic. World Bank, Washington, DC, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-9257.
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Schlichten, David von. Quarantine: How Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Helped Me During the Early Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2021.
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Schlichten, David von. Quarantine: How Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Helped Me During the Early Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2021.
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Schlichten, David von. Quarantine: How Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Helped Me During the Early Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2021.
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Brandon, Avril, and Gavin Dingwall. Minority Ethnic Prisoners and the COVID-19 Lockdown. Policy Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529219555.001.0001.
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Prisons in Ireland and the United Kingdom went into lockdown as the risk of mass transmission of COVID-19 became apparent in early 2020. A health catastrophe was averted, but at considerable human cost: prisoners were confined to their cells for most of the day and communal activity and visits ceased. It is tempting to think that the pandemic has impacted indiscriminately but community outcomes have revealed significant variance. This book tests the hypothesis that this was also the case in prisons by reviewing how male adult prisoners from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, Irish Travelling and Roma communities and foreign national prisoners experienced lockdown in Irish and United Kingdom prisons. Drawing primarily on inspection reports and a series of interviews with those working with these prisoners, the book details how particular aspects of lockdown were especially harsh for prisoners from these groups. Innovative measures were introduced to mitigate the worst effects of
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Pulse-Check: Exploration of Early COVID-19 Pandemic Health Care and Public Health Responses in Select Middle East Nations. RAND Corporation, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7249/rra1340-1.
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Taking Stock After Two Years of Covid-19: GSoD In Focus No. 13. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31752/idea.2022.19.
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When it became known in early 2020 that Covid-19 was becoming a global pandemic, it also became clear that governmental responses to the pandemic would have significant effects on democracy and human rights. With two years of data from International IDEA’s Global Monitor of Covid-19’s Impact on Democracy and Human Rights, we can take stock of what has happened and in which areas the events align with or differ from our expectations about how a pandemic might affect these vital areas of public life. This report examines the effects of the pandemic responses in six broad areas: (1) emergency legal responses and civil liberties, (2) freedom of movement, association, and assembly, (3) freedom of expression and media integrity, (4) privacy rights and contact tracing applications, (5) women’s rights and minority rights, and (6) vaccination and fundamental rights. In each of the sections, the report describes the global trends in each of these areas, highlights cases that illustrate both positive and negative examples, and considers what the upcoming challenges will be.
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Montirosso, Rosario, Eleonora Mascheroni, Barbara Kalmanson, and Mark S. Innocenti, eds. Coping With Pandemic: Families Engagement and Early Parental Intervention to Support Child Development During and After the Covid-19 Outbreak. Frontiers Media SA, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/978-2-88976-404-4.
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Reddy, Purshottama Sivanarain. Good Public Governance in a Global Pandemic. Edited by Paul Joyce and Fabienne Maron. The International Institute of Administrative Sciences, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.46996/pgs.v1e1.
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This book provides the readers with a set of vivid studies of the variety of national approaches that were taken to responding to COVID-19 in the first few months of the pandemic. At its core is a series of reports addressing the national responses to COVID-19 in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa. Country reports present the actions, events and circumstances of governmental response and make an early attempt at producing insights and at distilling lessons. Eyewitness reports from civil servants and public managers contain practical points of view on the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic. In different chapters, editors and contributors provide an analytical framework for the description and explanation of government measures and their consequences in a rich variety and diversity of national settings. They also situate the governmental responses to the pandemic in the context of the global governance agenda, stress the important relationship between governmental authorities and citizens, and emphasize the role of ideological factors in the government response to COVID-19. A bold attempt is made in the concluding chapter to model government strategies for managing the emergency of the pandemic and the consequences for trajectories of infection and mortality. As the editors argue, the principles of “good governance” are of relevance to countries everywhere. There was evidence of them in action on the COVID-19 pandemic all over the world, in a wide range of institutional settings. COVID-19 experiences have a lot to teach us about the governance capabilities that will be needed when future emergency situations occur, emergencies that might be created by pandemics or climate change, or various other global risks. Governments will need to be agile, able to learn in real time, good at evaluating evidence in fast changing and complex situations, and good at facilitating coordination across the whole-of-government and in partnership with citizens and the private sector.
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McMann, Kelly M., and Daniel Tisch. Democratic Institutions and Practices and the Impact on Covid-19 Outcomes: Global State of Democracy 2021 Thematic Paper. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31752/idea.2021.86.
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Despite the narratives of authoritarian states, the concerns of journalists and public intellectuals in democracies, and the results of some early studies, this paper shows that democracies fare no worse than authoritarian regimes in combating the Covid-19 pandemic. Democracy is not associated with higher Covid-19 death rates, nor is it associated with lower vaccination rates. Moreover, among many democratic countries, high levels of key democratic components -such as fundamental rights and impartial administration—seem to help prevent deaths and boost vaccination rates. These conclusions are based on statistical analyses of democracy components, as measured by International IDEA’s Global State of Democracy (GSoD) Indices, and the reported Covid-19 death rates and Covid-19 vaccination rates in all countries of the world with a population of at least one million people.
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Heinmaa, Anika, and Nana Kalandadze. Special Voting Arrangements in Europe: Postal, Early and Mobile Voting. Webinar series report, November 2020. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31752/idea.2021.3.
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Special voting arrangements (SVAs) are designed to expand voting opportunities to individuals who are otherwise not able to vote. Safeguards that protect the equality, secrecy and transparency of the vote are vital for successful implementation of SVAs. Over the past few decades, countries across Europe have been increasingly adopting SVAs—particularly postal, early and mobile forms of voting. The COVID-19 pandemic has further accelerated their use throughout the year 2020. International IDEA and the Association of European Election Officials (ACEEEO) convened a series of online webinars in October and November 2020 on SVAs. This report summarizes key insights and reflections from each of the three webinars.
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Raban, Mukthar. Innovative Leadership: Opening Post-School Education in South Africa through Enabling Early e-Learning Adoption. African Minds, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.47622/9781928502425_p12.
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Since the rise of the computer and the internet, technology-enhanced learning (TEL) has gradually become a more prominent part of the post-school education and training sector (Gaebel et al. 2014; Kanuka 2008). Interest in TEL dramatically rose during the COVID-19 pandemic, but even preceding the lockdowns, e-learning offerings were already increasing at a rate of 15% per year worldwide (Alqahtani & Rajkhan 2020). TEL and online learning in general were becoming more commonplace, both as a substitute for, or complement to, face-to-face learning and teaching. In South Africa, the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) has called for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges to widen flexible access to learning by varying their modes of delivery to include e-learning and blended learning so as to become more open, accessible and inclusive (DHET 2013, 2017). In response, many of the 50 colleges in the TVET sector have sought to increase the range and diversity of e-learning experiences within their various programmes.
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Parsons, Jordan A., and Elizabeth Chloe Romanis. Early Medical Abortion, Equality of Access, and the Telemedical Imperative. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780192896155.001.0001.
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Telemedicine has recently become a key focus of healthcare systems globally, heavily influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Implementing telemedicine can bring myriad benefits for both patients (improved access and enhanced autonomy) and providers (improved service efficiency). One area in which telemedicine might have a huge impact is in improving access is abortion care. Telemedical early medical abortion encompasses a wide range of services, but fundamentally it involves remote provision of some or all aspects of the care pathway (confirmation of pregnancy/gestational age, consultation/counselling, provision of medications, and aftercare). We examine the safety, effectiveness, and acceptability of early medical abortion provided by telemedicine, alongside the access barriers created by the law in the UK and US. In doing so, we argue that there is a moral imperative to make the necessary regulatory changes to enable the provision of telemedical early medical abortion. In both the U K and US, abortion is heavily regulated—exceptionally so when compared to other routine healthcare. This law has had the effect of exacerbating the social circumstances and geography that can make access to abortion clinics difficult. Telemedicine might go some way to addressing these issues, but much regulation of abortion in these jurisdictions continues to limit the establishment of telemedical early medical abortion services. Whilst we focus on the legal and policy landscape in the UK and US, the case we advance in support of the telemedical provision of early medical abortion is broadly applicable.
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Hill, Alice C. The Fight for Climate after COVID-19. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197549704.001.0001.
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The catastrophic risks of pandemics and climate change carry deep uncertainty as to when they will occur, how they will unfold, and how much damage they will do. The most important question is how these risks can be faced to minimize them most. This book draws on the troubled and uneven COVID-19 experience to illustrate the critical need to ramp up resilience rapidly and effectively on a global scale. It exposes parallels between the underutilized measures that governments should have taken to contain the spread of COVID-19—such as early action, cross-border planning, and bolstering emergency preparation—and the steps leaders can take now to mitigate the impacts of climate change. Through practical analyses of current policy and thoughtful guidance for successful climate adaptation, the book reveals that, just as society has transformed itself to meet the challenge of coronavirus, so too will the thinking and policies need to be adapted to combat the ever-increasing threat of climate change.
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Torluccio, Giuseppe, Paolo Palliola, Paola Brighi, Lorenzo Dal Maso, Antonio Ciccaglione, Francesca Pampurini, and Anna Grazia Quaranta. IFRS9 e le sfide di contesto. AIFIRM, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.47473/2016ppa00032.
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Under IFRS9, Financial Institutions are required to implement impairment frameworks to determine the expected losses on their credit portfolio taking into account the current (so called “point in time”) and the prospective (so called “forward looking”) economic cycle. The Covid-19 pandemic, which began in early 2020, has posed significant challenges for Financial Institutions in their ability to manage credit risk. Despite numerous guidelines given by regulators, estimating IFRS9 expected loss continues to be a considerable challenge. The challenge partly stems from the relationship between macro-economic scenarios and credit losses, the treatment of moratoriums inside the historical series for development and calibration of IFRS9 risk parameters, and the management of support measures defined at National and European levels (e.g. Next Generation EU) for the forward looking estimations.
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Pearce Laanela, Therese. Special Voting Arrangements: Between the Convenience of Voting and the Integrity of Elections. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31752/idea.2021.56.
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Forms of special voting arrangements (SVAs) conventionally include early, postal, online, proxy voting and use of mobile ballot boxes. Some of these SVAs involve voting within supervised voting stations and some enable voting without/outside polling stations. Over the past years, a growing number of countries across the globe, and in Europe, have utilised alternatives, with early, postal and proxy voting becoming more common. In the past months, the COVID-19 pandemic has led many governments and electoral management bodies to increasingly consider adopting new or scaling up these SVAs to avoid crowded voting on an election day. For in-person voting, examples of elections held in recent weeks in countries such as South Korea offer useful insights on what measures can be adopted to mitigate risks of disease contagion while voters assemble to cast their ballots at polling stations. This lecture and paper by Therese Pearce Laanela, Head of Electoral Processes of International IDEA, discusses the tension between providing convenience for voters by offering different ways of casting their votes and the need to ensure the elections are held with integrity.
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Matějková, Kristýna. Europa Postmediaevalis 2020: Post-medieval pottery in the spare time. Edited by Gabriela Blažková. Archaeopress Archaeology, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.32028/9781789699173.
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'Post-medieval pottery in the spare time' is a collection of papers planned for what would have been the second Europa Postmediaevalis conference. The focus is on the Early Modern period (15th to 18th centuries) and the growing use of new ceramic forms for leisure activities. Although the conference itself could not be held, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the volume nevertheless brings together 28 contributions from authors from nine countries, from Portugal to Russia, from Italian Sardinia to Polish Stargard. A finds assemblage from the United Arab Emirates published by Portuguese colleagues, represents the tenth country. The volume comprises several subtopics which at first glance seem diverse. And yet, be they smoking, drinking coffee or alcohol, garden strolls or games, they share one thing in common: they are hobbies and vices enjoyed mainly in one’s free time. In the Early Modern period, these were typically activities of a rather luxurious nature, initially reserved for those with loftier positions in society but which, over time, gradually filtered down to the lower economic classes. It is therefore not surprising that the greater demand for new activities was also reflected in pottery production. As such, new ceramic forms such as cups, pipes and flowerpots began to appear in Early Modern archaeological assemblages and form the basis of this anthology. The volume will provide readers with useful comparison assemblages and serve as a source of inspiration for subsequent research.
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MARROQUÍN-DE JESÚS, Ángel, Juan Manuel OLIVARES-RAMÍREZ, Marisela CRUZ-RAMÍREZ, and Luis Eduardo CRUZ-CARPIO. CIERMMI Women in Science Medicine and Health Sciences Handbooks T-XIII. ECORFAN-Mexico, S.C., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35429/h.2021.13.1.130.
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As the first chapter, Terán, Cisneros and Gutiérrez present Knowledge of health personnel about HPV screening tests: a systematic review, as second chapter, González, Meraz, Chávez and González will discuss Health Risk Behaviors and Emotional State of Medical Students as third chapter, Aguilar, Morado, Villada and Tovar present Early trauma as conditioning of psychopathology in adult women, as fourth chapter, Torre, Therio, Carrillo and Mendoza propose Growth and development of the craniofacial region and the stomatognathic apparatus, as the fifth chapter, Villarreal, Enriquez, Hernández and Medina, perform Assessment of physical activity, sedentary behaviors and physical fitness in perimenopausal women, as the sixth chapter, Díaz, González, Uvalle and Mederos develop Pro-Inflammatory cytokines: Leptin and visfatin associated to obesity in young university students, as seventh chapter, Enríquez, Vieyra, Ramos and Trujillo, will discuss Presence of neuroglobin in the substantia nigra in a murine model of parkinson's disease: an immunohistochemical study, in eighth chapter, Martínez, Tavizon, Carlos and Mauricio present Prevalence of ectopic eruption and intercanine distance in children aged 6 to 12 years. Cycle 2019-2020, as the ninth chapter, Caceres, Zárate, Flores and Bustillos, performed Anxiety in medical students, during a COVID-19 pandemic and as the last chapter, González, Hernández, Martínez and González, focus on Overwiev of general plant toxicology uses and adverse effects.
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Besharov, Douglas J., and Douglas M. Call, eds. Work and the Social Safety Net. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190241599.001.0001.
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Abstract During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the United States and much of the developed world were rocked by three successive economic shocks, each one more severe than the one before. Real relief from these economic shocks, of course, can only come from a restored economy—with balanced strength across many sectors and regions. Safety-net programs can also help alleviate this suffering. They provide urgent financial help, and, properly designed, they can assist, motivate, or nudge recipients to seek and accept new employment. When necessary, they can help recipients to learn new skills and engage in other socially preferred behaviors. That is, they can “activate” the unemployed and underemployed. US welfare reform, culminating in the 1996 enactment of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, was a highly visible example of embedding activation efforts in safety-net programs. Although the United States has not made significant changes since then, as this volume describes, in the 1990s and early 2000s, many European counties adopted policy reforms aimed at activating those recipients apparently able to work. These policy reforms were put to the test during the Great Recession and its aftermath. This volume reviews the experiences from both Europe and the United States during this period. Its purpose is to identify policies for activating recipients of safety-net programs while still preserving a strong social safety net and act as a guide during the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and future downturns.