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The COVID-19
pandemic
has highlighted the way structural differences, institutional frameworks, and the extent to which governments and financial systems have built up buffers shape crisis responses.
Having already led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, the
pandemic
represents one of the worst public-health crises in recent history.
In fact, one silver lining of the
pandemic
is that it has shown how quickly we can make radical changes to our lifestyles.
On the contrary, the
pandemic
represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world to create a healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous future.
Economically, they relied on commodity exports, remittances, and tourism, all of which fell through the floor with the
pandemic.
Much of this has been rendered effectively unpayable by the economic shock of the
pandemic.
What COVID-19 Reveals About the US and ChinaHONG KONG – There is nothing like a
pandemic
to expose systemic differences.
The Fed is taking that route again during the pandemic, slashing interest rates and expanding its balance sheet by more than $2.4 trillion in the past six weeks to prevent a systemic liquidity shortage.
The US Treasury is delivering
pandemic
stimulus payments through direct deposits and mailed checks.
But the COVID-19
pandemic
has shown that any disruption of the debt-consumption cycle threatens to trigger collapse almost immediately: as soon as incomes are interrupted, private financial institutions curtail credit, fearing non-performing loans.
Donald Trump cannot be blamed for the COVID-19 pandemic, but he can be held accountable for botching the response.
Keeping the Global Focus on Low-Income CountriesWASHINGTON, DC/THE HAGUE – Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the global economy is suffering its sharpest decline since the Great Depression.
They faced a dramatic increase in spending needs just when the
pandemic
caused a decline in revenues from tourism, remittances, and commodity prices.
Even before the pandemic, around half of low-income countries were in, or at high risk of, debt distress.
Now that many countries have only limited, if any, access to new market financing, they are confronting a terrible trade-off between supporting their people during the
pandemic
and servicing their debt.
Since the onset of the pandemic, the IMF has doubled access to emergency financing facilities and provided $11 billion in emergency financing to 47 countries in this group.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Fund has secured an additional $22 billion, and is now working to mobilize grants to ensure zero-interest lending at these levels, to which the Netherlands will be contributing as well.
The Netherlands, for example, recently pulled together €500 million ($595 million) to keep existing development efforts afloat, and to fund new ones to help poor countries fight the
pandemic.
But the
pandemic
and ongoing trade tensions have jeopardized that progress.
Together, we can help the most vulnerable countries and communities recover from the
pandemic.
The current COVID-19
pandemic
has made the situation even worse.
The COVID-Climate NexusCAMBRIDGE – From early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, a common refrain has been, “At least maybe now we will get serious about addressing climate change.”
The terrible toll the
pandemic
has taken should remind us of the importance of three things that are also necessary to tackle global warming: science, public policy, and international cooperation.
The
pandemic
should remind everybody that the facts of nature cannot be wished away, and that progress follows a scientific path.
Even action by individual national governments will not be enough, because the
pandemic
and climate change are global externalities.
Aside from the positive correlations between COVID-19 and climate change, some direct connections go the other way: some aspects of the
pandemic
work to slow global warming.
It is difficult to predict whether the
pandemic
will galvanize support for more aggressive efforts to combat climate change.
Perhaps the most immediate silver lining of the COVID-19 tragedy is the effect that US President Donald Trump’s mismanagement of the
pandemic
has had on his re-election prospects.
America’s upcoming election will take place against the backdrop of a dreadful
pandemic
and mounting climate threats.
But, if managed properly, the
pandemic
may prove to be a loud hiccup on the way to realizing the African Century.
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