Shared Responsibility, Global Solidarity: Responding to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19
United Nations, Shared Responsibility, Global Solidarity: Responding to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19, 2020

We are facing a global health crisis unlike any in the 75-year history of the United Nations — one that is killing people, spreading human suffering, and upending people’s lives. But this is much more than a health crisis. It is a human crisis. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is attacking societies at their core. The IMF has just reassessed the prospect for growth for 2020 and 2021, declaring that we have entered a recession – as bad as or worse than in 2009. The IMF projects recovery in 2021 only if the world succeeds in containing the virus and take the necessary economic measures.
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