Now is as good a time as any

Covid-19 has shown that if you want to attract investment, you have to digitise your economy.

Countries emerging from long years of economic mismanagement, conflict and misrule are more vulnerable to the effects of the Covid-19 crisis as they are not fully prepared economically, logistically and technologically to face such sudden challenges. Poor countries which desperately need external resources in the form of capital, technology and human force to stay afloat are going to suffer the most. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) forecasts in its report entitled