At a CII event the economist said that it is essential for India to focus on public health and remain in control of the Covid-19 outbreak Mumbai: The Covid-19 pandemic is unlikely to reverse the trend of globalization and India needs to open up its markets further to benefit from the post covid global demand, feel economists. "The world economy, the world society does better with openness, with trade, with flow of capital, flow of ideas and movement of people.
This epidemic doesn't change that fundamental point," said Jeffrey Sachs, American economist, liberal, academic, public policy analyst and former director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University.