What can be done about COVID-19 debt surges

The COVID-19 pandemic saw the largest single-year surge in global debt since at least 1970. Image: REUTERS/Russell Boyce
Carmen M. Reinhart
Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
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