Emerging countries facing the coronavirus

A doctor performs a coronavirus screening test, as part of the fight against the epidemic, in Chennai (India), on April 13, 2020. REUTERS / P. Ravikumar

By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

The global economy continues to be plagued, country by country, region by region by Covid-19; the health crisis is also affecting global trade and international investment, exploding deficits and debt, and making multilateral aid and recovery plans on all continents even more massive, more urgent, and perhaps also more uncertain .

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What impact on the economies of emerging countries, in Asia, Africa, Latin America or the Middle East? Should we fear serious social unrest and - worse still - food crises? What short and long term help should international financial institutions and the countries of the North provide and can they provide to the countries of the South? Is a moratorium on the debt of the poorest countries sufficient, is it possible to cancel it? Are the cards of globalization being shuffled?

We talk about it with :
- Jean-Joseph Boillot , researcher at IRIS (Institute for International and Strategic Relations
- Gilles Dufrenot , Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Management of the University of Aix- Marseille
- Thierry Apoteker , founder of TAC Economics. 

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