How might the coronavirus outbreak affect global supply-chains
Background
Our remit is global and our interests correspondingly wide. The below are indicative rather than fully comprehensive questions of relevance for our work and are arranged into ten overlapping categories.
The dynamic nature of world events and diplomatic work around them mean that we often need research based insights to help anticipate, shape, manage and benefit from unfolding developments and possible futures. The synthesised expertise of researchers can help us make judgements in a policy environment where experimental trials and replicable results are often impossible or inappropriate.
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Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
FCO Areas of research interest coronavirus COVID 19 update May 2020 GOVUK
Related UKRI funded projects
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ReImagining Supply Chains Network Plus (RiSC+)
The UK government has set out a strategy to enhance our national security and the UK's resilience to a rapidly changing world. This has reached new levels of urgency in the wake of repeated systematic shocks from financi...
Funded by: BBSRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project specifically addresses the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on global supply chains and proposes solutions to increase resilience.
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Managing supply chain vulnerability: Understanding the impact of supply chain design
Over the past two decades, managers have made major improvements in the efficiency of supply chains, driving out costs by sourcing goods and services from low cost locations, using new technologies to create greater inte...
Funded by: EPSRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project specifically examines how supply chain design affects vulnerability, which directly addresses the question of how the coronavirus outbreak may affect global supply chains.
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Simulating the economic impacts of crises using large-scale firm-level production network data
The COVID-19 pandemic and vast natural disasters revealed how the complex interactions of firms' supply chain relations can amplify the economic damages of crises. Swiftly implementing targeted economic recovery packages...
Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee
Why might this be relevant?
The project specifically focuses on simulating the economic impacts of crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, on global supply chains.