Second Niger BridgeThe devastating impact of the COVID-19 pestilence on the global economy is obvious. Reason finance experts rightly predicted that many corporations’ finances in 2020 would be in red. The International Monetary Fund did predict that the global economy would contract by three percent as countries around the world shrink at the fastest pace in decades. The IMF described the global decline as the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s. x It said the pandemic had plunged the world into a “crisis like no other”. The Fund added that a prolonged outbreak would test the ability of governments and central banks to control the crisis.