February 17, 2020· 29 min

What the Coronavirus Means for Pandemic Bonds

Olga Jonas

Orality

Model

61%

Mixed oral/literate (blogs, casual essays)

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(1,420 words)

M:93%

HostJoe Weisenthal(1,420 words)

M:93%

GuestOlga Jonas(2,619 words)

M:28%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic44%

literally, completely, huge

Engagement57%

you, our, your

Memory Aids100%

listen, now, so

Repetition100%

know (82x), it's (49x), world (28x)

Parallelism100%

So the entire world has been w..., And as I'm recording, there's ..., But I gotta say, the entire at...

Sound Patterns58%

26 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"

Formulaic Phrases4%

i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging7%

quite, maybe, could

Passive Voice18%

been asked, is used, was launched

Abstract Nouns30%

investment, recommendation, apartment

Subordination7%

because, therefore, however

Sentence Length53%

Avg: 18.2 words/sentence

Word Complexity49%

investment, analyze, anticipate

Academic Markers7%

according to

Impersonal Style43%

257 personal pronouns found

Descriptive Style61%

literally, completely, deadly

Description

Back in 2017, the World Bank issued the world's first pandemic bonds. The bonds are meant to shift some of the financial risk of a global pandemic on to investors, but they've been criticized for having 'triggers' that are too tough to generate payouts. Now, as the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread, it's worth looking at how these bonds are structured and what they can tell us about the future of public-private partnerships in finance. In this episode of Odd Lots, we speak with Olga Jonas of the Harvard Global Health Institute, and a former economist at the World Bank with significant pandemic experience. She gives us her take on the bonds as well as the economic impact of big epidemics. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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