https://www.scmp.com/rss/507090/feed Mauricio Cárdenas, a former finance minister of Colombia, is senior fellow at Columbia University’s Centre on Global Energy Policy. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating impact on middle-income countries. With the exception of the United States, the 10 countries with the highest number of Covid-19 cases to date are all middle-income countries. And the same is true for new daily cases and Covid-19 deaths per million population. The economic projections for middle-income countries are equally dismal. Latin America’s experience is illustrative: the region accounts for just 8.4 per cent of the global population, but 30... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3099837/middle-income-countries-lonely-war-coronavirus-cannot-be-ignored?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3099837/middle-income-countries-lonely-war-coronavirus-cannot-be-ignored?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 02 Sep 2020 12:45:17 +0000