Milestones After "Covid 19"
The International Consulting Company, "Proact", organized the "Economic Recovery" Forum in Bahrain under the slogan "After the Pandemic", which is held remotely through direct broadcast with the participation of a group of economists and business owners who addressed the features of the recovery phase after the elimination of the Corona virus pandemic in the sectors of the economy Banking, health, nutrition, tourism, hotels, technology, communications and media. Speakers during the forum also reviewed investment opportunities and methods to face challenges and encourage innovation required for the next phase.
Dr. Khaled Boumtia, Secretary-General of the Forum and General Manager of Proact International Consulting, welcomed at the beginning of the forum the specialized participants who review - each according to his field - the changes imposed by the pandemic and how to invest it and overcome its consequences, especially in the most affected sectors.
Businessman Khalid Al-Amin said in his intervention that the Bahraini economy has sufficient flexibility to overcome the repercussions of the Corona crisis, expressing his belief that the economy will recover quickly as soon as the precautionary measures imposed by the outbreak of the Corona pandemic are eased, and he indicated that the integration of the Bahraini economy and its openness to the economies of the region and the world makes this acceleration Recovery is also tied to actions other countries take.
Speaking during the forum, the spokesman and journalist Ibrahim Al-Tamimi said that the Coronavirus represents an opportunity to adopt a new methodology in terms of work, distance education, social communication, and others, as the plight of Corona once again demonstrated the cohesion and solidarity of Bahraini society, indicating that the post-Corona economic recovery It is largely related to the date of the expiration, disappearance, or elimination of this virus.
Professor Faisal Abdul Latif Al-Nasser, head of the Home Health Care Center - one of the speakers at the forum - confirmed that the epidemic that afflicted the world recently and spread in a very short period not exceeding four months has managed to change many concepts of people and governments, foremost among which are health services. He added, "Some of those changes that have occurred impose priorities and establish a different manner in which health services are expected to be in the post-pandemic era, and this necessarily reflects on the horizons and opportunities for investment in the health field."
For his part, Professor Mu''nis Al-Mardi, editor-in-chief of the Bahraini newspaper Al-Bilad and a speaker at the forum, said: “There is an optimistic view of the speed of the economy’s recovery after the pandemic, but unfortunately most of the economic forecasts say otherwise. We need to understand the effects of the economic downturn that will last for decades, and as a result, we will see a change in the economic terrain. ”
In a working paper presented during the forum, Dr. Lulwa Bodlama, Adviser for Media Affairs at the Ministry of Information, addressed the differences in public confidence in the official media before the Corona pandemic and during this pandemic, and the prospective role of official and informal media in crises, while Dr. Ali Al-Mawlani, head of the Bahrain Economists Association, answered the question. On the impact of the financial and economic package announced by the state on the Bahraini economy.
