Australians have turned inward to fight the coronavirus outbreak. But we’ll soon need to look outward again | MattWadeSMH
Australians have turned inward to fight the coronavirus outbreak. But we’ll soon need to look outward again. Our near-neighbours are struggling to deal with the pandemic and the economic damage on our doorstep is immense.
A more extreme 20 per cent contraction in income per person would double Indonesia’s rate of extreme poverty. Under that scenario the share of Indonesians living in extreme poverty would jump from one in 20 to about one in nine. Earlier this month Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne and International Development Minister Alex Hawke outlined a government response to the“In this unprecedented situation, we have moved quickly to re-orient our development partnerships to bring forward funding for critical health services and to mitigate the economic shock,” their statement said.Most lower-income countries lack the social safety nets we take for granted in Australia, such as income support for the unemployed.
India, a nation of growing economic and political importance to Australia, is also vulnerable. The nation's former Reserve Bank governor, the internationally renowned economist Ragu Rajan, says India’s economy faces “its greatest emergency since Independence” more than 70 years ago.While nations across Asia have made huge progress during the past two decades, the coronavirus outbreak has exposed how many countries in the region are ill-equipped to deal with a complex health crisis.
The limited capacity of developing countries to manage the immediate health crisis will deepen the inevitable economic crisis.
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