THE Covid-19 pandemic has brought with its devastating economic repercussions, possibly the harshest that we have seen in recent history. This has necessitated us to strike a delicate balance between safeguarding the health of our people while protecting their economic interests.
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has predicted that the global economy over the next two years will remain highly uncertain, similar to the predictions from the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).