Fiscal firepower: governments’ covid-19 aid

The Intelligence from The Economist

• Episode: Fiscal firepower: governments’ covid-19 aid
• Website: The Intelligence from The Economist
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• Duration: 00:22:36
• Published: 2020-03-25 11:17

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

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