Economic downturns loom everywhere. But some economies will suffer much more than others
is yet to lift its lockdown, but its experience with an HIV/AIDS epidemic has helped it at least flatten the curve., such measures threaten ruin. Seventy per cent do not have formal jobs, with contracts, salaries or sick leave, but instead do things like driving rickshaws for a living. In many places there is not much of a safety net for the poor or unemployed either. Some workers feel they face a choice between getting sick and going hungry.
, for example, workers who are younger, poorer or lacking a university education have disproportionately lost their source of income.from the pandemic. After bungling its initial response, the ruling party swiftly imposed a quarantine of breathtaking scope and severity. It seems to have worked. America is still a far bigger donor to Africa, for example, and to the United Nations.
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