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Fiscal firepower: governments’ covid-19 aid

Fiscal firepower: governments’ covid-19 aid

FromThe Intelligence from The Economist


Fiscal firepower: governments’ covid-19 aid

FromThe Intelligence from The Economist

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Length:
23 minutes
Released:
Mar 25, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

As American lawmakers reach a deal on the country’s largest-ever rescue package, we examine how planners are balancing the health of their citizens and that of their economies. China’s lockdown came in the midst of the spring planting season; what can other countries learn about how to keep food flowing? And the increasingly perilous lives of crocodile hunters in the Congo River basin. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/radiooffer For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Mar 25, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

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Get a daily burst of global illumination from The Economist’s worldwide network of correspondents as they dig past the headlines to get to the stories beneath—and to stories that aren’t making headlines, but should be.