This forthcoming title in the Departmental Paper Series describes the special challenges facing low-income countries as economic growth contracts by an estimated 1.1 percent globally. Coping with the Crisis: Challenges Facing Low-Income Countries provides an assessment of the implications of the...

Introduction / Mathias Dewatripont, André Sapir and Khalid Sekkat -- How much has LDC trade affected Western job markets? / Richard Freeman and Ana Revenga -- Relative prices, trade and restructuring in European industry / Damien Neven and Charles Wyplosz -- Labour market effects of trade with...

The COVID-19 crisis is unique in many respects and, as the IMF (2021, p. 43) puts it: "a crisis like no other". A global economic contraction occurred that was unprecedented in its speed and depth. Support packages were put together in some parts of the world that also dwarfed anything seen up...