“Advanced economies, especially the US, have acted forcefully to reignite their economies and support vulnerable businesses and households...Most developing countries, however, are struggling to obtain the funds to maintain existing support programs, let alone absorb the additional costs imposed by the pandemic,” CFR’s A. Michael Spence writes with Columbia University’s Joseph E. Stiglitz and the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Jayati Ghosh.
 
“If policymakers and corporate leaders do not make women’s economic participation central to their post-pandemic recovery planning, even the modest economic gains that women have made in recent decades will be lost—and the world’s economic prospects will significantly weaken as a result,” CFR’s Jamille Bigio and Rachel Vogelstein write with McKinsey & Company’s Kweilin Ellingrud, Mekala Krishnan, and Anu Madgavkar for Foreign Affairs.