Fearonomics: the future of pandemics

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The new episode of the EBRD’s Fearonomics podcast explores the risks of future pandemics.

With new cases of monkeypox globally detected, the looming risks of growing anti-microbial resistance and the impact of climate crisis, is the next pandemic just around the corner?

The IMF has recently forecasted the global cost of the Covid-19 pandemic will rise beyond $12,5 trillion through 2024, fuelled by vast gaps in vaccination rates, widening divergence between rich and poor and disproportionate gender impacts.

But we have yet to suffer many of the hidden costs of the pandemic.

Such as the impact of education missed, the toll taken on mental health, the eroding of trust in governments.

Listen to Jonathan Charles, the EBRD’s Managing Director of Communications, in discussion with Sergei Guriev, former EBRD Chief Economist and currently Professor of Economics at Science Po, and Beata Javorcik, the EBRD’s Chief Economist who is also Professor of Economics at Oxford University.

Are we ready for the next pandemic?

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