How The Six Largest Global Economies Are Dealing With COVID-19

The political economy of any one nation is interlinked with the global economy, and because of this the scale of activities in the largest economies really does matter — they may even be of greater importance to a nation’s ease of recovery than the effectiveness of its COVID-19 management regime.

One would expect the richer Western nations to have a handle on the situation better than their poorer Asian counterparts, but the data says otherwise. Countries with a fraction of the per capita income of the richest few are seeing far fewer mortalities.

How much does demographics play into the picture? And, daft as it may sound, is there such a thing as the ‘advantage of poverty’?