Update: World leaders pledge to tackle effects of the pandemic - a podcast by BBC World Service

The 21 leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation have met today (albeit virtually) to pledge urgent action to tackle the health and economic effects of the Covid 19 pandemic. Eric Martin of Bloomberg News in Washington DC gives us more context about what was discussed.
And Kai Ryssdal, host of the Marketplace programme on American Public Media, has been talking to David Britt, who chairs the county's Economic Development Committee in Spartanburg County in South Carolina. He tells us how the county is creating jobs and boosting business in the wake of the pandemic.

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