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While the COVID-19 pandemic posits a significant challenge to all societies around the world, it also reveals in the most dramatic manner the many abysmal differences between so-called advanced economies and the developing world.
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Proaño, C.R. On the Macroeconomic and Social Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic in Latin America and the Developing World. Intereconomics 55, 159–162 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-020-0889-x
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