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Business Daily: The cost of lockdown in the developing world

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26/03/2020 GMT

The cost of lockdown in the developing world

BBC World Service - Business Daily, The cost of lockdown in the developing world

The region's poorest say they 'fear hunger may kill us before coronavirus'

India has been put in lockdown to halt the spread of the coronavirus outbreak. Already the growing restrictions have caused turmoil in India's big cities. Hundreds of thousands of migrant wage labourers have suddenly found themselves jobless. Jayati Ghosh, professor of economics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, says there is a critical lack of planning for the hundreds of millions of people who are near the breadline. Meanwhile, poor countries around the world are seeing their citizens suffer under restrictions. So is the price of lockdown in the poor world just too high? American political scientist Ian Bremmer thinks it's a question we need to take seriously.

Producer: Frey Lindsay.
(Picture:Mumbai Police checking ID card during restrictions on citizens' movement. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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