Webinar | Policies to Fight the Pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean

Webinar | Policies to Fight the Pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean

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? 07 July 2020 ? 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Webinar

Join the online debate with LSE and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) about the policies to fight the pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, is taking a huge toll across the world, and governments in Latin America and the Caribbean are taking aggressive measures to save lives. Within a matter of weeks, the macroeconomic outlook for the region has changed dramatically.

Financing costs have risen, commodities fallen, and large losses of GDP now seem unavoidable. However, the self-imposed partial closure of the economy is anything but a normal recession, and typical countercyclical demand management, both fiscal and monetary, is likely to be inconducive.

A panel from the IDB and LSE will discuss the 2020 Latin American and Caribbean Macroeconomic Report and its diagnosis of a rapidly changing environment and policy recommendations aimed to bring relief, maintain economic stability, and keep the core of the economy intact.

Original source: IDB
Published on 30 June 2020