Growing Global Inequality: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Developing Countries
Growing Global Inequality: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Developing Countries

Author(s): Patryk Kugiel
Subject(s): Politics, International relations/trade, Welfare systems, Developing nations, Health and medicine and law
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: COVID-19; pandemic; developing countries; global inequality;
Summary/Abstract: The poorest countries will be the ones most affected by the long-term economic and social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Delays in vaccinations and insufficient resources to prompt an economic recovery deepen their poverty. The deepening of economic inequality in the world will lead to destabilisation, increased migration pressure, and difficulties in achieving climate goals. That is why G20 leaders have announced that they will accelerate vaccination campaigns in the poorest countries. The EU can focus on increasing the supply of vaccines to developing countries and the recovery of their economies from the pandemic.

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