While conducting housing surveys of South Africa in August, I was curious to gain a better understanding of the state of load shedding in the country. Back in May of this year, my colleague, Zach Rossignol, wrote about the scheduled blackouts as both a daily inconvenience and a hindrance to the South African economy.
Mona Zayed
Mona joined AIRINC in 2020 as a surveyor and analyst. Her primary responsibilities include researching international goods and services prices, conducting housing surveys, and analyzing the assembled data. She received her bachelor degrees from Boston University, where she studied Environmental Science and International Relations. In addition to English, Mona speaks Arabic. She is based in Cambridge, MA.
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Sweden’s Loose COVID-19 Containment Approach and the Resulting Mobility Restrictions
Sep 01, 2020 @ 07:15 AM / by Mona Zayed
In May 2020, I conducted a remote housing survey of Stockholm. I read extensively about Sweden’s herd-immunity approach to COVID-19 and how the government is not enforcing business closures.