Provide a brief account of the variables available for your analysis and comment on the overall quality of the data. ( 10 marks)
Select the variables you plan to use in your econometric model and justify your selection. Produce a table with summary statistics for each variable and provide an analysis of the evidence emerging from the statistics. (10 marks)
There is a debate among WHO officials on whether the pandemic is affecting poor countries harder than the rich ones. In order to investigate this issue you have been asked to provide some evidence on the hypothesis that countries whose GDP is below median do not differ in terms of “total_death_rate_per_million” compared to the countries whose GDP is above median