Opinion: The world economy is in for a mammoth shock this summer – but recovery is possible

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Opinion: The world economy is in for a mammoth shock this summer – but recovery is possible
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A sustained and strong bounce back is possible. But the key is getting the detail right, and that could prove to be rather tricky, writes Hamish McRae

he scale of the damage to the world economy is starting to become evident. Until now we have been overwhelmed by the flood of news: about the progress of the coronavirus itself, the measures taken by different countries to check its spread, and about the increasingly desperate efforts by governments and central banks to prop up the economy. What we had little feeling for would be the scale of the economic damage.

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