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The Compass: The Pandemic that Changed the World: Remedies: The pandemic that changed the world

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15/07/2020 GMT

Remedies: The pandemic that changed the world

The Pandemic that Changed the World

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How should governments respond to the pandemic?

How should governments respond to the pandemic? The Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc both to health systems and economies. Above all it has served to expose inequalities both within nations and between them. Hardest hit are countries in the developing world, where government finances do not permit the level of support to citizens or the private sector that has been provided by richer governments. Ian Goldin, professor of globalisation and development at Oxford University, sees the crisis as marking a turning point in relations between the state and the private sector. Even so, he asks whether governments are doing enough to address the economic impact of the pandemic and the resulting inequalities. He hears powerful testimony from his guests who include the economist Joseph Stiglitz, novelist and activist Arundhati Roy, Achim Steiner, the head of the United Nations Development Programme, and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the chair of GAVI, the vaccine alliance.
Producer: Tim Mansel

The Compass: The Pandemic that Changed the World

Ian Goldin analyses the Covid pandemic, economic disaster and the future of globalisation

Ian Goldin analyses the Covid pandemic, economic disaster and the future of globalisation.

We had often been warned that a pandemic was inevitable, yet we were unable to prevent it occurring. Covid-19 has already killed hundreds of thousands of people all over the world and led to an unprecedented global economic meltdown. “The worst crisis since The Great Depression,” Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the IMF, tells this series of The Compass.
 
Ian Goldin, professor of globalisation and development at Oxford University, predicted the crisis. In this series, he traces its origins, explores its unprecedented economic effects and asks whether all the pain and suffering might lead to a better world. Much-needed perspectives are provided by the writer and activist Arundhati Roy, the Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, the historian Margaret MacMillan, the medic who discovered the Ebola virus Peter Piot, and the renowned pandemic expert Larry Brilliant.

Image: Employees wear face shields at a shopping mall in Jakarta (Credit: Bagus Indahono/EPA)

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