As the Covid-19 pandemic drags on, many of us living in wealthy countries are still struggling to get used to the ‘new normal’ of frequent regulatory changes that affect our freedom of movement and well-being. In developing countries, the negative effects of the pandemic move beyond the curtailing of movement to include increasing hunger, unemployment, and inequality.
In this post, ISS alumna Shradha Parashari and PhD researcher Lize Swartz argue that we can now witness some of these seemingly permanent changes that may take years or even decades to reverse, and we should not accept this as a ‘new normal’.
Read the full post: Worsening inequality in the developing world: why we should say no to a ‘new normal’
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