Sovereign debt sustainability after Covid-19

Ludger Schuknecht, vice-president and corporate secretary of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and Dennis Shen, Dennis Shen, a director of sovereign ratings at Scope Ratings, join John Orchard, chief executive officer of OMFIF, to discuss sovereign debt sustainability in both developed and developing economies. Their conversation focuses on the fiscal response to Covid-19, the debt ratio problem and its potential solution, the readiness of some countries to end their quantitative easing programmes and the best measures to keep in place to maintain fiscal sustainability.