How can we support and restructure firms hit by the COVID-19 crisis?
What are the vulnerabilities and risks in the enterprise sector and how prepared are countries to handle a large-scale restructuring of businesses?
Speakers
Ceyla Pazarbasioglu
Director of the Strategy, Policy, and Review Department, IMF,
Video Recording
At this event we hosted Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, Director of the IMF's Strategy, Policy, and Review Department, who presented principles that could guide the design of more targeted policy support and facilitate the restructuring of firms adversely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. She drew on data from a recent IMF paper: .
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