Despite being one of the countries that had the most COVID-19 cases in early 2020, South Korea managed to control the spread of the outbreak in less than a month, and today it has a mortality rate of 0.2% with a cumulative number of positive cases that is flattening out. Added to this, it managed in a short time to stabilize the economy with an aid package equivalent to 31.2% … [Read more...] about Restoring fiscal growth and sustainability: 4 strategic measures implemented by South Korea to face the emergency and the new normal
Ana Cristina Calderón Ramírez
Ana Cristina Calderón R is a sector specialist in public procurement at the IDB's fiscal division. She is an expert on issues relating to public management compliance assessments, aid effectiveness and the modernization of public procurement systems in Latin America and the Caribbean. She Holds a PhD from the Maastricht University, school of Government (UNU-MERIT) and MSc in Social Policy and Development from London School of Economics. She has also completed studies on Economic and Foreign Policy at American University in Washington DC and on the use of data analysis for strategic communication from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.