If
I had to select a piece of today’s news, I would go for the WHO
Director-General’s warning that the pandemic is still growing in many parts of
the world. It has now reached every nation. Many countries are now at a
standstill. In some of them, even internal travel is not allowed.
Poverty
is expanding rapidly in developing countries. The world is losing what it
gained in decades of development assistance. It hurts to acknowledge such a
fact, particularly for someone who spent decades in the development line of
work. The only hope is that once the pandemic is under control the know-how
that has been created in those countries all these past years will be mobilised
for a quick recovery. For that to happen, those countries will need major
capital injections. The international institutions will have to be the key
advocates of such assistance.
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