WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The World Bank’s board is finalizing a package of coronavirus relief valued at up to $160 billion over the next 15 months, the development lender’s president, David Malpass said on Thursday.
“The goals are to shorten the time to recovery; create conditions for growth; support small and medium enterprises; and help protect the poor and vulnerable,” Malpass said in a statement issued after a G20 leaders call on Thursday.
He added that the health crisis hit close to home, as former World Bank U.S. executive director Carole Brookins has died of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
(Reporting by David Lawder and Andrea Shalal; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
