AD 2021: Economic Recovery and the Great Reset

November 15, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has plunged the world into a health, social and economic crisis of exceptional magnitude. In economic terms, the restrictions established to contain the spread of the virus have resulted in a sudden stop to entire sectors of activity and major disruptions to supply chains. Consequently, the global economy experienced its worst recession since World War II in 2020, with a 3.3% contraction in real GDP, a sharp decline in trade and direct investment flows, in addition to massive job losses. As a result, the downward trend in poverty that began in the 1980s has been reversed and more than 100 million additional people have fallen back into extreme poverty. In this context, a number of questions seem relevant: What are the levers to act on for a quick and strong recovery for the world economy? What place for human development in the post-Covid development strategies? How to conciliate between ambitious development objectives and budget sustainability? Moderator: Otaviano Canuto, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South Speakers: - Maria Eugenia Brizuela de Avila, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, El Salvador - Harinder Kohli, President and CEO, Centennial Group, USA - Frannie Leautier, Chairperson, Co-Founding Partner, Mkoba Private Equity Fund, Tanzania

Speakers
Otaviano Canuto
Senior Fellow
Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Brookings Institute. Former Vice President and Executive Director at the World Bank, Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Vice President at the Inter-American Development Bank. ...
Harinder Kohli
Founding Director and Chief Executive, Emerging Markets Forum (EMF)
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