The Lo Valledor main wholesale market, in Chile, pictured during the COVID-19 pandemic. A new report by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean ( ECLAC ) unveiled on Tuesday, proposes that governments ensure immediate temporary cash transfers to help millions of people struggling to meet basic needs, as the massive fallout from COVID-19 ripples across the region’s economies.
Executive-Secretary Alecia Bárcena – launching the “The Social Challenge in Times of COVID-19 ” report, at a virtual press conference in Santiago, Chile – said these transfers should then be made permanent and extend to those who are at […]
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