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The Curionomist Podcasts | COVID-19 Special SeriesAuthor: Anush
A podcast about the economic impacts of the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus 2019) outbreak, from the perspective of an economist in Sri Lanka. What it means for the world economy, how its different to the GFC fallout or the impacts of SARS, what countries are doing to stem the economic fallout. Language: en Genres: News, News Commentary Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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The Curionomist Podcasts | Season 3: COVID-19 Special Series - Relief Packages by National Governments
Episode 2
Monday, 23 March, 2020
March 2020: In this episode of the Curionomist Podcast, I take a brief look at some of the economic relief measures that different countries have announced. In the previous edition of the COVID-19 special series, I talked about the macro-level economics impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak for the world economy. I briefly touched on the fact that the economic recovery of countries and the world at large would depend a lot on the relief measures that countries adopt and how effective they would be. Of course, as I mentioned last time, unlike the response to the Global Financial Crisis, this Coronavirus crisis is not seeing any sort of coordination global action with regard to economic recovery. There is no real G-20 action, no real cooperation or coordination. Every country for itself, seems to largely be the motto. Several of the most affected countries have announced different combinations of relief measures, mainly aimed at giving financial relief to people and businesses.
