Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Michael Spence are spearheading calls for urgent action to help poorer countries recover from the economic ravages of the coronavirus pandemic, including measures to advance vaccine equity, debt relief, and bolstering fiscal resources for cash-strapped nations.
The proposals were outlined in a new interim report released on Thursday the one-year anniversary of the global pandemic by the Institute for New Economic Thinkings Commission on Global Economic Transformation, co-chaired by Stiglitz and Spence.
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures, Spence said in the report. Failing bold action, developing countries could be on track to lose years or even decades of progress in…
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