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No quick or easy answers for the pandemic's toll on developing economies

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No quick or easy answers for the pandemic's toll on developing economies

11 May 2020

Harvard Kennedy School Professor Ricardo Hausmann and the Growth Lab COVID-19 Task Force are helping developing countries around the globe develop economic and epidemiological responses to the coronavirus pandemic. Hausmann tells PolicyCast host Thoko Moyo that although some countries are having success in controlling the virus and in developing innovative approaches to restoring economic activity, the pandemic will be almost certainly be a "very, very serious headache" until a vaccine is widely available.
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Authors

Thoko Moyo, Ralph Ranalli, Susan Hughes

Duration
33:32
Episode number
215
Published in
United States of America

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