What does this mean for international development?
The Covid-19 pandemic has given us a chance to re-think our social contract -- to re-shape how we collaborate and cooperate with one another. The vastly unequal effects of the pandemic have exposed the cracks that exist in how we support each other, both within countries and between countries. Years of progress made in human development are now at stake.

Covid-19 highlights a new face of globalization -- the realization that no one is safe until everyone is safe is really a new universalism. Yet, while the pandemic represents a universal storm, we are not on the same boat. Some of us have well-built ships and have barely been affected or are benefiting from the pandemic. More of us, who had less robust but functional boats, are struggling through.