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Affected companies and disrupted billions of lives and jeopardize development process. The june edition of the world banks Global Economic prospects which motivates todays conversation and visions a 5 1 4 percent construction in global gdp in 2020. This is a different recession sinceworld war ii. And a drop in capital incomes since 1870 and it is a timely and vigorous report informed by an assessment of the fundamental drivers of longterm growth includingthe collapsing investments which will slow capital formation. And the dislocation of trade and supply linkages among others. Beyond the headline Economic Growth numbers the pandemic is having a disproportionate effect on low Income Countries where the dependence on commodity prices, food is the largest and in a way economies are dominated by the factor with which lowers its ability to adjust to measure such as confinement similarly, the most vulnerable populations in the advanced economies are relatively more exports as such a pandemic
Where you are. Thank you for joining us for this Virtual Event on the po postcovid global outlook. Im a senior fellow and vicepresident of the economy and Development Program at brookings. The Global Economy is sharp, unprecedented in its depth. And the pandemic and responses have brought countries and economies to a standstill disrupting billions of lives and jeopardizing decades of development progress. The june edition of the World Bank Global economic prospects which motivates todays conversations envisions a 5 1 4 contraction of global gdp in 2020. This is the deepest global recession since world war ii and the largest collapse in per capita income since 1870. Its a timely report thats informed by assessment of the fundamental drivers of longterm growth, including the collapsing investments which will slow capital formations and in Human Capital and the location of trade and supply linkages among others. The pandemic is having a proportionate effect on lower Income Countries where