The World Economic Situation after the Covid-19 Shock and Policy Challenges Ahead 16/03/2022
Channel: UNCTADMeetings
Date: 2022-09-07

This webinar forms part of the activities of the Response and Recovery: Mobilising Financial Resources for development in the time of COVID-19 project. It discusses three main issues: (i) the macroeconomic prospects for growth recovery and economic development in countries of the Global South; (ii) the challenges to climate change adaptation when strategies for structural transformation have faded away; and (iii) the near-unsurmountable constraints of commodity-dependent economies of the Global South. 

Moderator and opening by: Mr. Alex Izurieta, Senior Economist UNCTAD.

Panel discussion: Prof. Terry McKinley, Centre for Development Policy and Research - School of African and Asian Studies (SOAS), University of London (England);  Prof. Pranab Mukhopadhyay, Goa Business School, University of Goa (India); Prof. Alemayehu Geda, University of Addis Ababa (Ethiopia).

Concluding remarks: Mr. Jo Michell, Associate Professor of Economics at UWE Bristol (England).

More: https://mobilizingdevfinance.org/activity/world-economic-situation-after-covid-19-shock-and-policy-challenges-ahead