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RETRACTED ARTICLE: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on socio-economic and sustainability

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Wei, Xueli, Li, Lijing, Zhang, Fan·2021·Environmental Science and Pollution Research

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PUMPING ELEPHANT: The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected the lives of people around the world in millions of ways . Due to this severe epidemic, all countries in the world have been affected by all aspects, mainly economic. It is widely discussed that the COVID-19 outbreak has affected the world economy. When considering this dimension, this study aims to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world economy, socio-economics, and sustainability. In addition, the research focuses on multiple aspects of social well-being during the pandemic, such as employment, poverty, the status of women, food security, and global trade. To this end, the study used time series and cross-sectional analysis of the data. The second-hand data used in this study comes from the websites of major international organizations. From the analysis of secondary data, the conclusion of this article is that the impact of the pandemic is huge. The main finding of the thesis is that the social economy is affected by the pandemic, causing huge losses in terms of economic well-being and social capital.

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  • Each demographic group showed a different impact of the pandemic based on economic, social, professional, family, and routine aspects.

    “Although those dispositional and behavioral dimensions were shared by the entire population, each demographic group showed a different impact of the pandemic based on economic, social, professional, family, and routine aspects [30,31,32,33,34,35].”

    From Impact of Stress during COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy: A Study on Dispositional and Behavioral Dimensions for Supporting Evidence-Based Targeted Strategies (2024) · cites this paper as [34]

    The Introduction identifies groups it says were especially affected, and the Results section on women describes distinct economic, work, caregiving, and domestic impacts. The paper supports unequal impacts across some groups, but it does not compare each demographic group across all five aspects named in the claim; page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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  1. Gerzon Mahler D; Lakner C; Castaneda Aguilar RA; Wu H (2020). The impact of COVID-19 (coronavirus) on global poverty: why sub-Saharan Africa might be the region hardest hit;Vol. 19.
  2. The World Bank predicts that remittances will experience the largest decline in recent history. (2020). Available online: https//www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/04/22/world-bank-predicts-sharpest-decline-of-remittances-in-recent-history (access to 25 June).

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Authors
Wei, X., Li, L., & Zhang, F.
Affiliations
Harbin Medical University (CN)
Corresponding author
Zhang, Fan
Venue
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
Published
2021-07-15
Volume
28
Issue
48
Pages
68251-68260
ISSN
  • 0944-1344 (ISSN-L)
  • 1614-7499
OpenAlex
W3181464833
Cited by
66
References
25
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 4
FWCI
11.07
Type
journal article
Language
en
Status
Retracted
Open access
Locations
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Research Square (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Heilongjiang Provincial Education Science Planning (GJE1320136)
  • Heilongjiang Education and Science (GBB1318076.)
  • Heilongjiang Economic and Social Development Key Research Project (JD2017021.)
  • Heilongjiang Provincial University Basic Scientific Research (2018-KYYWF-0594)
  • Heilongjiang Philosophy and Social Science Research (19FXB039., 17GLB026.)
  • Harbin Medical University (DQXN201612., DQCTWH201801., DQCTWH201802.)
  • Sichuan Provincial Philosophy and Social Sciences Key Research (YF16-Y02.)
  • Daqing philosophy and social science planning research (DSGB2019035.)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • Social Sciences › Safety Research › Social impacts of COVID-19
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › COVID-19 impact on air quality
Keywords
COVID-19 pandemic, global economy, socio-economic impacts, sustainability, employment, poverty, women's status, food security, international trade, economic well-being, social capital
MeSH terms
Food Security, COVID-19, Commerce, Cross-Sectional Studies, Employment, Humans, Poverty, Pandemics, Social Capital

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