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LatAm must seize opportunities to avoid lost decade post-Covid
Ibero-American secretary-general Rebeca Grynspan (L) and president of Agencia Efe Gabriela Cañas (R) during a roundtable on the Latin America s future during Davos week in Madrid, Spain, 29 January 2021. EFE/ Mariscal
Ibero-American secretary-general Rebeca Grynspan during a roundtable on the Latin America s future during Davos week in Madrid, Spain, 29 January 2021. EFE/ Mariscal
Senior officials from international organizations and development banks on Friday discussed the future challenges facing Latin America and how it could overcome a pandemic that disproportionately affected the region.
In a virutal round-table organized by Efe during the World Economic Forum, a number of experts debated how the region could replicate a form of Marshall Plan or introduce a framework similar to the Next Generation EU, a fund set a side to help European nations overcome the pandemic.
LatAm must seize opportunities to avoid lost decade post-Covid 1 minute read
Madrid, Jan 29 (efe-epa).- Senior officials from international organizations and development banks on Friday discussed the future challenges facing Latin America and how it could overcome a pandemic that disproportionately affected the region.
In a virutal round-table organized by Efe during the World Economic Forum, a number of experts debated how the region could replicate a form of Marshall Plan or introduce a framework similar to the Next Generation EU, a fund set a side to help European nations overcome the pandemic.
Alejandro Werner, Director of the Western Hemisphere Department of the International Monetary Fund said: “Once the pandemic is over, the region will have to invest in infrastructure and climate change-oriented infrastructure, and also will have to strengthen its social security and education systems.”
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Latin America s post-pandemic economic recovery will take center stage as senior representatives of international organizations and development banks participate in a debate organized by EFE at this year s virtual Davos Forum on Friday.
Officials from the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Ibero-American General Secretariat, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and CAF – Development Bank of Latin America will participate in the discussion on a post-Covid Marshal Plan for Latin America.
The debate, moderated by EFE s president Gabriela Cañas, will focus on whether Latin America needs a post-pandemic recovery plan, like the one approved by the European Union, and how to achieve that given that the region is less politically integrated than Europe.
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