Economic Policy for a Pandemic Age: How the World Must Prepare

Addressing vulnerability and promoting security
Apr 17, 2021 | Peterson Institute for International Economics, Monica de Bolle, Maurice Obstfeld, Adam Posen

The COVID-19 pandemic may persist for years with the threats of zoonotic or human-made pathogens increasing in the absence of international cooperation to correct the conditions that create them, warn Monica de Bolle, Maurice Obstfeld, and Adam Posen in this Briefing by the Peterson Institute for International Economics. They review eleven policy areas in which cooperative, forward-looking policy action will improve the chances of escaping the current plague and making future plagues less costly.
https://www.piie.com/sites/default/files/documents/piieb21-2.pdf

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