Building Forward Together

The economic damage to developing economies triggered by COVID-19 can be transformed: from a threat to global growth, into an accelerator of global prosperity. Rapid financial support, developed and deployed in concert between developing countries and the major players of the global economy, public and private, will reinject growth momentum into economies which were among the world’s fastest growing prior to the pandemic. Emerging and developing economies, excluding China, already account for nearly 40% of global output; restarting these economies will be important for the recovery in the developed world. A prolonged funding gap will impose lasting scars on the labour markets, social cohesion and businesses of all emerging markets and jeopardise our shared global goals.