@inbook{698b225f4c1e4e46b5ad5bc144a27cc7,
title = "Introduction and Overview",
abstract = "The world economy was severely hit by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. It was estimated that the annual growth in the world{\textquoteright}s real gross domestic product (GDP) in 2020 would be - 3.3% (International Monetary Fund (IMF) 2021). World trade simultaneously contracted sharply.",
author = "Naoto Jinji and Xingyuan Zhang and Shoji Haruna",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s).",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1007/978-981-16-5210-3_1",
language = "English",
series = "Advances in Japanese Business and Economics",
publisher = "Springer Japan",
pages = "1--20",
booktitle = "Advances in Japanese Business and Economics",
}