NEW YORK – Although it seems like ancient history, it hasn’t been that long since economies around the world began to close down in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Early in the crisis, most people anticipated a quick V-shaped recovery, on the assumption that the economy merely needed a short timeout. After two months of tender loving care and heaps of money, it would pick up where it left off
NEW HAVEN – Pandemic time runs at warp speed. That’s true of the COVID-19 infection rate, as well as the unprecedented scientific efforts under way to find a vaccine. It is also true of transformational developments currently playing out in pandemic-affected economies. Just as a lockdown-induced recession brought global economic activity to a virtual standstill in a mere two months, hopes for a V-shaped recovery are premised on an equally quick reopening of shuttered economies
КЕМБРИДЖ – Как и во всем остальном, пандемия коронавируса серьезно затронула международное развитие. Как мы можем использовать эти уроки, чтобы изменить сектор, а не вернуться к status quo?
WASHINGTON, DC – After ravaging the developed world, COVID-19 is now devastating developing and emerging-market countries, most of which lack the medical and financial capacity to combat the pandemic and its economic effects
НЬЮ-ХЕЙВЕН – В пандемию события разворачиваются быстрее скорости света. Это касается как количества заражённых Covid-19, так и беспрецедентных научных усилий, предпринимаемых сейчас для разработки вакцины