April 17, 2020/United Capital Report According to the IMF’s recently published Regional Economic Outlook for SSA, growth in 2020 is projected to decline by –1.6%. This will be the lowest level in more than 20 years, as the coronavirus outbreak threatens to break the region’s 2 straight decades of positive […]
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Mitigating COVID-19’s impact on Africa’s food systems
The global spread of COVID-19 and the rising number of coronavirus cases in Africa are fueling anxiety about negative economic growth, failing healthcare and collapsing food systems April 17, 2020/AfDB By Atsuko Toda and Martin Fregene We are facing great uncertainty on the African continent. The global spread of COVID-19 […]
Economic Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean in the Time of COVID-19
April 16, 2020/IMFBlog By Alejandro Werner As of today, about 3,000 people have died from the COVID-19 virus in Latin America and the Caribbean. While the pandemic continues to spread across the region, countries are facing the worst economic recession since countries started producing national accounts statistics in the 1950s. […]
