The Small Economies of North-East Asia During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Mongolia and the DPRK

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	Regionalistica 2021 Volume 8 number 6 pages 85-100

Title of the article	The Small Economies of North-East Asia During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Mongolia and the DPRK
Pages	85-100
Author	Izotov Dmitry Aleksandrovich candidate of sciences (economics), leading research fellow Economic Research Institute FEB RAS 153, Tikhookeanskaya Street, Khabarovsk, Russia, 680042 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ORCID: 0000-0001-9199-6226
Abstract	The purpose of the review is to determine the measures of Mongolia and the Korean People’s Democratic Republic government policy to support the economies in the face of containing COVID-19, as well as to identify the factors that determine the short- and medium-term prospects for their economic growth. It is shown that these two countries demonstrated a low level of COVID-19 spread, achieved by opposite measures of the policy. It has been established that Mongolia is implementing a large package of economic support measures, and the DPRK is taking measures of nationalization and indirect taxation of population income. It is determined that the main factor in the recovery of these economies is the expansion of trade relations with China.
Code	339.97+339.96
DOI	10.14530/reg.2021.6.85
Keywords	pandemic ♦ COVID-19 ♦ economic policy measures ♦ economic growth ♦ exports ♦ imports ♦ forecast ♦ Mongolia ♦ DPRK
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For citation	Izotov D.A. The Small Economies of North-East Asia During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Mongolia and the DPRK. Regionalistica [Regionalistics]. 2021. Vol. 8. No. 6. Pp. 85–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.14530/reg.2021.6.85 (In Russian)
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