Closing panel | How is COVID-19 changing development?
Channel: UNU-WIDER
Date: 2021-11-22

The closing panel will bring together a set of leading thinkers to discuss how COVID-19 changed development. The panel will take stock on what has been learnt about the effect of the pandemic on lives and livelihoods of citizens in developing countries. The panel will also look to the future and assess how the pandemic may affect global development in the years to come and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. 

The panel will address the following questions:
i) How can the developing world build back better? What can the international policy community do in this regard?
ii) What are the lessons from the pandemic on how humans should interact with the natural world?
iii) How can the international architecture be improved to address the glaring inequities that have been evident in the global economy during the pandemic, especially related to vaccine distribution and macroeconomic imbalances?
iv) To what extent has COVID-19 accentuated the case for a global, rather than an international, development paradigm?   

Chair: Kunal Sen

Panelists 
Rohinton Medhora
David Hulme 
Fatima Denton
Marty Chen

More details on the event page: https://www.wider.unu.edu/node/238547