INTERVIEW
Every day, alarmist forecasts on the world economy follow one another, in the midst of a coronavirus pandemic. The European Commission has forecast a historic recession of -7.7% in the European Union, while unemployment is reaching record highs in the United States. In France, the economy will gradually restart on Monday, the first day of deconfinement. But for economist Nicolas Bouzou, the recovery promises to be very complicated.
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"We decided to stop most of the economy to protect people's health, we plunged it into an artificial coma. This artificial coma worked well, otherwise we would have had an even worse situation than The difficulty, it will be the awakening, the period in which one enters ", estimated the economist, Friday evening on Europe 1.
"The economic situation depends on the health crisis"
But Nicolas Bouzou warned: the economic crisis will not be over as long as the virus continues to circulate. "We will have to get out of support systems and boost economic activity while respecting physical distance. The economic situation depends on the health crisis. From the moment the health crisis is not over, economic problems do not more, "he said, taking his cue from China.
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"In China, which is two months ahead of us from the point of view of the epidemic, economic activity is going up a bit but it is very slow and very complicated," said Nicolas Bouzou.