Countries like the UK, the US, and Germany should prepare for a long slow recovery with extended periods of instability in the wake of novel coronavirus pandemic.
Analysis from the University of Surrey warns that the economies of countries such as the United Kingdom, America, and Germany should prepare for a long slow recovery with prolonged periods of instability in the wake on coronavirus pandemic. The team from the University of Surrey's Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) found that even before the Covid-19 crisis, many of the world's leading economies were experiencing larger slower growth cycles (recession cycles), suggesting precisely such a period of critical slowing down in the economic system.
‘The added weight of the coronavirus crisis may result in one of the weakest and most unstable recoveries in documented history for many economies.’
The global economy is facing one of the largest downturns since the Great Depression in the 1930s. "Placing the economy on hold to prevent unfathomable human tragedy from the Covid-19 pandemic was the right decision. Trying to force our way back to economic growth now would be the wrong one. A post-growth world is the new normal," said Professor Tim Jackson, Director of CUSP at the University of Surrey in a paper published by Nature.
Rates of growth across member states of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have been in decline since the 1970s, a phenomenon known as 'secular stagnation.'
The average growth in the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita fell from over 4 percent in the mid-1960s to little more than 1 percent in the pre-pandemic years.
The International Monetary Fund expects global GDP to decline by 5 percent this year alone with a contraction of 3 percent likely even in the emerging and developing market economies.
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The overall number of global COVID-19 cases crossed the 10 million mark on Sunday, with deaths nearing 500,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
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Brazil came in second place with 1,313,667 infections and 57,070 deaths.
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