Covid, Gorno Tempini (Cdp): “Now at work for fair and sustainable growth”

After the pandemic “now that the global macroeconomic outlook finally returns to being positive, with most countries set to reach pre-Covid-19 GDP levels in 2022, there is a need to lay the foundations for more balanced growth. , fair and sustainable “. This was underlined by the president of CDP, Giovanni Gorno Tempini, in his opening speech at ‘Finance in common’, the global summit of public development banks, now in its second edition hosted by the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti. “The Covid-19 pandemic and the consequent socio-economic crisis – he said – have produced profound and lasting impacts worldwide, amplifying vulnerabilities and inequalities and highlighting the urgent need to reconsider our development models. Banks development agencies have been very active in the most difficult phase of the crisis in support of the economy, providing counter-cyclical investments that have made it possible to achieve short-term objectives and – he recalled – to lay the foundations for the subsequent recovery “.