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The pandemic of Covid-19 has caused the biggest shock in the economy since the Second World War. In this paper, we studied we study what conditioned the capability of the companies in Quito, Ecuador, to continuous operating in the new Covid-19 reality. The hypothesis remains that innovative firms have a greater capacity to adapt to the pandemic. We apply a probabilistic and ordinary least squares model. We use the data of a survey built to 1,730 SMEs in Quito between April and May of 202. We confirm that the probability to continuous operating number of the companies in Quito was related to the innovations developed after the pandemic started. We also explore the role of innovation is contrasted, both by diversity and typology. This paper contributes to the idea that innovation is fundamental to the future of the firms also in a little innovative country. © 2023,Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies. All Rights Reserved.
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The logic of the so-called "social distancing" has highlighted the vulnerability of immigrants, especially those of Haitian origin. Facing this, through qualitative methodology. the relationship between the measures decreed in the face of the pandemic, a political-social crisis that precedes it, informal labor, and precarious housing, is explored, since these points are key to understanding the formation of a unique habitat, ties, and the building of a "territorialized us", which provides answers to how the health crisis is lived, and how the project of life and social insertion in Chile, particularly in Santiago. is redefined. This is a young population with difficulties to exercise the right to the city within the principles of democracy, equality, and social justice, being cast as second class due to daily and institutional racism. These conditions have effects on the migrant route, their intentions to settle, and the tendency to return to their countries of origin.