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The economic impact of COVID-19 as estimated by OECD

OECD offers preliminary and grim estimates of the economic impact of COVID-19 as countries battle the pandemic with a range of containment measures. How soon countries will recover from such steep declines in output remains an open question.

© OECD graph - The initial impact of containment measures will be felt worldwide

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I am an Adjunct Professor, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. I am also a former Chief, Labour Market and Employment Policies Branch, ILO, Geneva. I was educated as an economist at Manchester, Western Ontario and Cambridge. I am one of the founding editors of the Journal of Asia Pacific Economy (Routledge, London and New York).

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