Covid-19 threatens to hit developing countries disproportionately with a short-term health crisis and a devastating social and economic crisis in the coming months and years, the United Nations Development Programme warned on Monday, 30 March.
UNDP therefore calls on the international community for unprecedented financial support, both immediate, during the epidemic and in the long term, to prevent the economic collapse of developing countries.
A UNDP Covid-19 rapid response facility has...