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Laurence Boone: Is enough being done to prevent a recession?
Laurence Boone, chief economist at the global economic forum, the OECD, discusses the fiscal impact of Covid-19. Are world leaders doing enough to prevent another recession?
HARDtalk鈥檚 Stephen Sackur speaks to Laurence Boone, chief economist at the global economic forum, the OECD. Leaders around the world have adopted the language of war to capture the scale of the threat posed by coronavirus. But are they deploying the right weaponry, not just to protect public health, but to prevent a worldwide economic depression? Will we get the dramatic, coordinated, emergency intervention needed to stave off economic disaster?
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Laurence Boone (Credit: Eric Piermont/AFP via Getty Images)
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