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Business Daily: How to build a bailout

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How to build a bailout

11/05/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Daily, How to build a bailout

Making corporate rescues, backed by tax payers, fair

Coronavirus is prompting the biggest government bailout effort of all time. Billions of dollars are being spent rescuing companies hit by the economic damage caused by the pandemic, but there are already criticisms that money is not going where it is most needed. 
In the US small and medium sized firms have been refused bailout loans, while larger firms have been borrowing millions; Ed Butler mulls the inequities in the system with Amanda Fischer of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth and Amanda Ballantyne of the Main Street Alliance.
Eric de Montgolfier, Chief Executive of Invest Europe, an umbrella body representing private equity firms argues that all companies should be treated the same and Carys Roberts at the UK’s Institute of Public Policy Research suggests that certain criteria should be adopted by governments when they step in  and that businesses themselves need to be responsible.
(Image: UK Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, Credit: AFP Getty)

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