The Impact Of The Corona Pandemic On The Public Policies Of Countries - A Case Study Of North African Countries

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has set a great example of the challenge facing the countries of North Africa, and it formed negative and obvious effects with which countries were unable to cope with their political and economic policies and plans to the point of disrupting this life with these countries, so it formed heavy burdens above what was already burdened, especially like the societies of North African countries. Which mainly suffers from “multiple problems to catch up with development and progress programmers, which contributed to this new situation in perpetuating what was already in place.” The underdevelopment increased and the wheel of development went backwards in light of this new circumstance that affected the whole world, and in light of the state of recovery, the political and economic effects remained and still are. The state of this pandemic is living, and accordingly this paper was looking at the general aspects of North African countries.
The economy of North African countries has been damaged by the impact of the Corona virus, which resulted in many closure measures that had a major negative role on supply and demand, as well as the issue of the sharp decline in global demand, which caused a decline in the exports of these countries in addition to the closing procedures, a drop in the price of Oil was halved, as Algeria’s GDP declined by between 4.5% to 5.8% during the year 2020. In the case of Morocco and Tunisia, whose economy was severely affected by the drop in tourism there, the GDP was 3.7% and .05% respectively. On the other hand, these countries' growth
has declined to 1.8% in the year 2020. The economy is expected to improve for the sub-region in 2021, assuming the epidemic does not subside. . The recovery that was expected in the year 2021 has set conditions related to the successful easing measures that governments and some countries in the sub-region have carried out, which clearly depend on activities related to the field of tourism (tourist places, restaurants, hotels, etc.), but this measure has been postponed. Because the restrictions procedures will continue for a longer period. With a significant and long-lasting impact on jobs and health, the pandemic could damage the results achieved in these countries in recent years in the areas of sustainable development (SDGs), causing higher levels of inequality and poverty and this requires eradicating the epidemic while reducing From its impact on the economy through strong and strict blocs of policies in order to achieve the following: (1) Direct support for the following businesses (tax solutions, part-time unemployment loan, easy loans, special credit paths, etc.) in order to survive in the work environment and prevent closure. (2) Providing assistance to workers and citizens at risk by providing broad social protection measures (the axes of cash transfers, food assistance, reducing
unemployment, etc.).