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How will the world pay for Covid-19?

As governments spend huge sums to get through the coronavirus crisis, how will they fund it all? Slash spending, raise taxes or just accept debt is here to stay?

With Tanya Beckett.

(Photo: Variety of world currency notes: Credit: Getty images)

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Mon 25 May 202009:06GMT
BBC World Service

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