African downturn and recovery paths to diverge

Low-profile data suggest that the economic damage caused by lockdowns in some of the poorer economies in Africa will be more moderate than in higher-income countries. But the economic pain could be more protracted in the former group of countries as they struggle to contain the virus.

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