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Ian Goldin: Will Covid-19 cause a new recession?
Zeinab Badawi interviews Ian Goldin, a professor on globalisation who predicted that the next financial crash would be caused by a pandemic. Will his prophesy come to pass?
The Covid-19 crisis is not only a threat to people's health and wellbeing, it is already having severe financial consequences, which many fear will result in a crisis of the kind we saw over a decade ago. Zeinab Badawi interviews Ian Goldin, a professor on globalisation and development, who six years ago predicted that the next financial crash would be caused by a pandemic. Will his prophesy come to pass, or can this be averted?
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