Denmark and COVID-19
By Marin A. Marinov
COVID-19 has set numerous challenges to the economies worldwide having caused an unprecedented health related and economic crisis. National governments worldwide have been faced with countless adamant policy problems related to how to safeguard their peoples throughout the COVID-19 crisis and deal successfully with the negative economic impacts coming from measures taken to safe human lives and limit the spread of the coronavirus.
Taking the case of Denmark in focus, this article addresses a number of important issues related to the specificity of the country socio-economic characteristics, the challenges set to the country by COVID-19 and the corresponding impact on the Danish economy. Moreover, attention is paid to the measures implemented by the national government to limit the negative impact on Danes by COVID-19, the specifics of the Danish labour market during the crisis, also how the crisis and the government measures impacted the household consumption in Denmark, the way in which Danish firms, operating abroad, have dealt with the challenges of COVID-19 taking the example of China as a host destination to Danish subsidiaries, among other relevant issues.
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