Key Takeaways
The following are a few of the main takeaways from COVID-19 Africa Watch‘s conversati
on with Dr. Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and U.N. Under-Secretary General:, “One of the things that we have seen during this crisis is the resilience of our private sector from Tunisia to South Africa to Morocco to Senegal, we see the private sector developing test kits, developing PPE, and the Continental Free Trade A, I don’t think that we can really and seriously exit the crisis if we have not yet gotten up to speed on tracing and testing and isolating and ensuring that we have the right strategies for bringing down the numbers., “We need FDI to come back in, and the only way that we can do that is by increasing the transparency of the use of government resources as we get out of this crisis.”
, Finally, infrastructure, I want to discuss our institutions first as a big part of the infrastructure we need to build. We’re seeing the weaknesses in our health institutions. We need to fix that., “We must come together and say that Africa, like any other continent in the world, requires immediate and urgent action.”
, Now we need again, at the end of the day, to be able to find the financing that is required in the right format. And I think, many countries have given themselves stimuluses 10, 20 percent of GDP.
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Jun 1, 2020