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

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The Pandemic that Changed the World

22/07/2020 GMT

Rethinking: The pandemic that changed the world

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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.

What will the world look like post-Covid? In an age of increasingly inward focus can a spirit of multilateralism prevail to meet the challenges posed by the reconstruction of national economies as well as the needs of poorer countries and the international organisations? And does the post-Coronavirus moment provide an opportunity to think differently about other global challenges, the foremost being climate change? Will we be able to “build back better”?  Ian Goldin, Oxford University’s professor of globalisation and development draws on his experience as economic advisor to Nelson Mandela and vice president at the World Bank to argue that the gravest threat to humanity in a generation could be turned into an opportunity. But the challenges are many. He discusses them with - among others - pandemic expert Larry Brilliant; Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz; the editor of The Economist, Zanny Minton Beddoes; and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the chair of GAVI, the vaccine alliance.

The Compass: The Pandemic that Changed the World

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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