More relief needed to address Covid-19 economic damage, says Michael Sachs
‘From a fiscal and economic point of view, we are closer to the end of the beginning rather than we are to the beginning of the end’
17 August 2020 - 13:01
UPDATED 17 August 2020 - 16:21
The government may have to extend its various Covid-19 relief schemes as the extent of the economic devastation caused by the pandemic becomes clear.
This is the view of Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) deputy chair Prof Michael Sachs, who previously headed up the Treasury’s budget office...
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