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Image: Tony Fernandez, flickr - A new body of global economists has been formed at The ANU to find pathways to economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Forty eminent economic scholars from 20 countries have joined as founding members of the new forum, which will examine the global macroeconomic consequences of the pandemic and explore potential mechanisms of recovery. Co-Director of the COVID-19 and the Macroeconomy Research Program, Professor Renee Fry-McKibbin from ANU, said economists worldwide have been struggling with the enormity of the economic impact arising from the need to arrest a global public health crisis. "Everything has changed, and the economy is not going back to the way it was, so our program provides a dialogue with colleagues in other countries who are all thinking about the same issues, but from different perspectives," she said. "Keeping people safe has come at a large cost, and now we need to work out how to balance the nation's health with a healthy economy that supports our new era of living with the virus. "Our global trade and financial networks have fundamentally changed.
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