How countries are helping small businesses survive COVID-19
Scores of retail businesses have permanently closed in cities around the world since the Great Lockdown in the spring of 2020. Image: REUTERS/Lee Smith
Kazuko Shirono
Deputy Division Chief, The Financial Institutions Division of the Statistics Department of the IMF
Yingjie Fan
Project officer, IMF’s Statistics Department
Esha Chhabra
Economist, IMF’s Statistics Department
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