CGD in the News

Trump suspends all travel from Europe to the United States to fight coronavirus (Straits Times)

March 12, 2020

From the article:

“…Centre for Global Development's senior policy fellow Jeremy Konyndyk said: ‘Travel bans are like locking the doors after the killer has already entered the house. Economic support treats the symptoms not the disease.’

Ms Amanda Glassman, executive vice-president of the Centre for Global Development, said: ‘We need a plan and guidance to slow the speed of Covid-19’s spread, to test more widely and quickly, to scale up treatment, to ease the economic impact beyond tax breaks, and to assure that poor countries prepare to limit spread in the medium term.’”