Daily Memo: Weighing Out Costs of the Coronavirus Crisis

The U.S. cut its WHO funding contributions, and major economies are trying to agree how to handle African countries' debt.

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WHO will pay for it? The United States has cut off its payments to the World Health Organization (WHO) over the agency’s alleged mismanagement of the coronavirus crisis and preferential treatment toward China. The United States is the largest funder of the WHO’s $4.8 billion budget; it contributed over $400 million (roughly 15 percent) to […]

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