Urgent need for swift economic response to coronavirus

20 March 2020

Written byNelson Barbosa (Sao Paulo School of Economics and University of Brasilia) and Richard Kozul-Wright (UNCTAD)

A swift economic response to the coronavirus pandemic, shaped by how we want the economy to look when we emerge from the crisis, is urgently needed, argue UNCTAD director of globalisation and development strategies, Richard Kozul-Wright, and former finance minister of Brazil, Nelson Barbosa, in this article published by the Financial Times.

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Urgent need for swift economic response to coronavirus

Written byNelson Barbosa (Sao Paulo School of Economics and University of Brasilia) and Richard Kozul-Wright (UNCTAD)