News Highlights: Ebola Cases Drop, but Disease Continues to Cripple Economies




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Summary: The number of Ebola cases are dropping, but the epidemic will continue to cripple the economies of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. That’s the conclusions of a new World Bank Group report released on the eve of the World Economic Forum in Davos. Listen to World Bank Senior Economist David Evans, co-author of the report, as he explains why the cost of Ebola is so high and why impoverished people who never got the disease are suffering.