The economic impact of COVID-19 in Africa: A round-up of this week’s analysis

The Center for Global Development's weekly roundup featured the blogpost, Economic impact of COVID-19 on tourism and remittances: Insights from Egypt, by Senior Research Fellow Clemens Breisinger et al. The blogpost estimates monthly GDP losses for Egypt under a range of scenarios, with estimates around 0.7 to 0.8 percent.