The uneven effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on National Statistical Offices

This paper presents an analysis of how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the operations of National Statistical Offices (NSOs), how NSOs responded and adjusted to the disruptions, and how they are transitioning to a post-pandemic equilibrium. The paper uses four rounds of the Global COVID-19 survey of NSOs conducted by The World Bank and the United Nations Statistical Division (UNSD), in coordination with the UN Regional Commissions. The paper highlights the heterogeneity of the COVID-19 disruptions among NSOs and provides evidence that statistical operations have been hardest hit in low- and lower middle-income countries. We find that NSOs with weaker Information and Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure, and those more impacted by declines in funding tended to be more affected and lag in their recovery trajectory. These NSOs tend to be concentrated in low- and lower-middle income countries. The paper concludes that without targeted action the effects of the pandemic will exacerbate and widen pre-existing data production inequalities, despite the best efforts of NSOs that have in most cases responded to the pandemic with the adoption of innovative solutions and have ingeniously used this crisis as an opportunity to accelerate the modernization of the national statistical systems. © 2022 - The authors.

RISK MANAGEMENT IN RELATION TO SARS COV 2 AND ITS EVALUATION IN SEVERAL PUBLIC COMPANIES IN ECUADOR

This work facilitates the process of continuous improvement in the institutions through the evaluation of compliance with state policies on occupational safety and health, applicable in governmental institutions. The measurement of regulatory compliance by means of the internal control questionnaire allows to classify the organizations in a framework of risk management before the Sars Cov 2 (COVID 19), providing as a result the determination that the organizations dedicated to provide health services maintain an extremely controlled risk management during the pandemic. While parish, municipal and provincial GAD'S show an important tendency, which classifies them as low risk. It also shows that 86.11% of health professionals in each institution provide quarantine or isolation to workers or public servants with suspected coronavirus (COVID19), always justifying their condition through a medical certificate.

Risk Management Evaluation Model for Public Companies in Ecuador against Sars Cov-2

With the health emergency triggered by the circulation of the SARS COV 2 virus, all sectors of society have been affected, which has brought with it new challenges. The inclusion of a risk-based management approach is very useful in this scenario to maintain Health and Safety at work. For this reason, this study proposes an approach to the regulatory framework around risk management and pursues as an objective the evaluation of risks for public companies in Ecuador in the face of the pandemic. For this, theoretical methods were used such as analysis and synthesis, historical and hermeneutic. Four steps are proposed to carry out this evaluation, as well as management indicators to facilitate the decision-making process.

Analysis of the Trend in Ecuadorian Electronic Banking Channels in Times of COVID-19

The sanitary measures implemented by the different countries have been to confine their population causing an imperative change in their forms of transaction between companies, and in the middle of them are the banking services that have always been an obligatory step to carry them out. This is why it arises, if the banking services would be affected by the restriction measures, and what would be the trend of three banking services, point of sale terminals, cash register and payment buttons. For this purpose, a research method was designed based on a quantitative approach with theoretical level methods of knowledge, based on an analysis of databases obtained from the main regulatory institutions of Ecuador. Obtaining as a result a high growth in the number of payment buttons for the use of companies and businesses, as a consequence of a change in the habits of carrying out transactions due to the confinement to contain the pandemic by COVI-19.

Design Of A Model For The Evaluation Of Social Projects Using Neutrosophic Ahp And Topsis

Projects are responses to identified problems. So a thorough analysis to detect the problem is extremely important in project management. There are countless types of projects depending on their purpose, content among other issues. Among these, those related to content and social development stand out due to the current context. In the development of this research, the characteristics of a project in a general sense are detailed and it is specified in those related to social programs, taking into account the current situation in the world, mainly influenced by the economic crisis and the Covid 19 pandemic. The foundations for the design and development of a procedure for the evaluation of social projects will be established. A series of principles and premises related to these will be analyzed using the AHP and TOPSIS multicriteria methods in their neutrosophic version. The result is a decision support tool for all the people involved in the process © 2021. Neutrosophic Sets and Systems. All Rights Reserved.