The global Covid-19 pandemic has in many ways laid bare the inherent inequities and imbalances that underpin the global system. In particular, the development, access and distribution of the Covid-19 vaccines has brought into sharp relief, the unequal and contradictory relations between the developed and developing worlds. In the race to rollout vaccines to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, nationalism has trumped multilateralism. This has seen rich and powerful countries in the West hoarding huge quantities of vaccines multiple times their own populations while the majority of developing countries struggle to access the vaccines. Continue reading...
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