Economics
Governments Find It’s Easier to Provide Virus Relief Than End It
- Governments face hard choices on curbing short-term measures
- Longer-term stimulus still needed to rejuvenate growth
Customers sit at cafes as shoppers walk past stores in the Strand Arcade in Sydney, Australia, on June 3.
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