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And China’s aggressive and decisive actions to combat the pandemic at home will be seen by many as a paradigm for Africa, given Europe and America’s disjointed and inept responses so far.
But Africa could emerge from the pandemic with less lasting damage than many fear.
True, African institutions are too frail and under-resourced to cope with the pandemic and its economic fallout, and the continent’s medical systems are woefully unprepared.
The continent’s leaders and its developed-country partners can and must contain the pandemic.
Before the pandemic, demand for logistics companies in Africa was already rising, and a growing amount of venture capital was being channeled toward local logistics startups.
Development finance institutions are uniquely suited to serve as catalysts for sectors that can boost economic growth or advance other development goals – or, during a pandemic, contribute to meeting public-health imperatives.
If economic and commercial opportunities were not enough motivation for investors to tackle the short-term constraints on e-commerce in Africa, the COVID-19 pandemic should be.
These advances, with equitable access for all countries, are vital if we are to end this pandemic and prevent future tragedies.
More worrying than COVID-19 are epidemiologists’ predictions that an even worse pandemic could hit us in the future.
The question, then, is whether this 75th anniversary could serve as another UN moment, an occasion for the world to come together behind a renewed multilateralism in response to the pandemic.
As a truly global problem, the pandemic could be an impetus for much stronger internationalism under the UN’s auspices, at least in principle.
Coming in the middle of the pandemic, it is destined to disappoint those hoping that the magnitude of the current catastrophe will bring about a new UN moment this September.
Lack of effective demand has impeded China’s growth for years, and the pandemic has made the situation much worse.
Advanced economies have been throwing unprecedented sums of money at the pandemic: fiscal packages totaling one-tenth of GDP or more – to strengthen health systems, pay furloughed workers’ wages, and support firms – were unthinkable a year ago; today, they are commonplace.
Worse yet, the pandemic has paralyzed manufacturing networks and supply chains – especially in China, which accounts for 28% of global manufacturing output.
Such policies, which are intentionally left vague, apply to almost all products and are largely intended to discourage takeovers of domestic firms by Chinese investors during the pandemic.
Crippling GVCs in response to the pandemic will therefore be self-defeating.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the global economy to an abrupt halt and highlighted the fragility of existing GVCs.
But if this were all there was to it, the impact, however large, would probably be much smaller than the decline in general international tourism and easily reversible, once the pandemic is over.
According to our estimates, a complete permanent shutdown of international business travel would shrink global GDP by over 17% of GDP, an order of magnitude larger than the 1.7% of GDP that was being spent in 2018, before the pandemic.
To be sure, the pandemic and technologies such as Zoom is likely to show that some business travel will really not be necessary.
Faced with this pandemic, policymakers can draw several useful lessons from China and other countries that were among the first to be hit by COVID-19.
In order to mitigate some of the economic fallout from the pandemic, policymakers must provide rapid emergency assistance to workers, firms, and financial institutions.
In addition, the pandemic is causing incomes and demand to contract, which affects upstream sectors everywhere.
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens the world with disaster.
All sovereigns will emerge from the pandemic with a larger stock of debt.
To reframe our pandemic response with gender at the center, we need, first, to protect and support the global health workforce, 70% of whom are women.
The COVID-19 pandemic should be a spur to action.
With the pandemic placing a premium on technologies that facilitate social distancing, it should start now.
This is a global pandemic, with an increasing number of people suffering from depression, mental illness, suicidal tendencies, and physical ailments linked to job pressures, insecurity, inequality, and feelings of inadequacy among many people who perceive themselves to be just “licking at the window” of consumerism.
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