Coronavirus: five ways the pandemic is increasing global inequality

A development expert explains how the Covid outbreak entrenched preexisting social ills

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A development expert explains how the Covid outbreak entrenched preexisting social ills
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Kunal Sen, professor and director at the World Institute for Development Economics Research, on how the coronavirus pandemic has increased preexisting injustices.

Before coronavirus, inequality was already increasing in many parts of the developing world. But the pandemic is going to greatly heighten existing economic and social inequalities.

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