POSSIBLE ECONOMIC POLICY MEASURES IN THE CURRENT CONTEXT AND POST COVID-19: CASE ECUADOR

Abstract

This work analyzes the economic and political scenario of Ecuador in the context of the pandemic generated by COVID-19. For analysis, the main economic figures that demonstrate the existence of an economic crisis prior to the arrival of the pandemic in the country, the current ones and their post-effect are taken as a reference. In the political context, it highlights the lack of credibility in the government, as well as the application of an anti-popular public agenda that manages to materialize in an emergency context and that increases the mistrust of citizens in the government of President Lenin Moreno. It also recognizes new challenges for the country that may mean a change between the relationship between the State, the market and society, generating economic and political measures seeking to flatten the contagion curve and the economic reactivation of the Ecuadorian economy.