Post Covid Economic Recovery

Nirmala Sitharaman discussed post-pandemic economic recovery, India's major role in the global fight against Covid and preparations for the upcoming Climate Conference among other issues during her meeting with World Bank President David Malpass.

The world is unequal enough and the Covid-19 pandemic threatens to make things more unequal still. Poorer countries have had to take on debt they will struggle to pay back. Their more fragile healthcare systems and crowded cities forced them into stricter and more economically harmful lockdowns, and poverty rates have risen dramatically. Now, they ...

Nirmala Sitharaman discussed post-pandemic economic recovery, India's major role in the global fight against Covid and preparations for the upcoming Climate Conference among other issues during her meeting with World Bank President David Malpass.

The world is unequal enough and the Covid-19 pandemic threatens to make things more unequal still. Poorer countries have had to take on debt they will struggle to pay back. Their more fragile healthcare systems and crowded cities forced them into stricter and more economically harmful lockdowns, and poverty rates have risen dramatically. Now, they ...