S3 Ep19: We need a Covid-19 debt standstill

27/04/2020 22 min Temporada 3 Episodio 19
S3 Ep19: We need a Covid-19 debt standstill

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Episode Synopsis

In a new paper called Born out of necessity, a group of economists and  lawyers propose a way for developing and emerging countries to temporarily redirect debt repayments to fund Covid-19 relief. Ugo Panizza and Mitu Gulati tell Tim Phillips how it would work.

Read about this controversial idea at VoxEU.