A year into pandemic, pressure builds to fix economic inequality

Calls are growing to redress festering income and wealth inequalities that exacerbated the spread of COVID-19 and are now deepening within and between nations.

A year ago, as the global economy was melting down, I highlighted the silver lining that could emerge from the unprecedented upheaval sweeping nations and upending billions of lives and livelihoods: the opportunity to remedy economic distortions that for decades have fuelled rising wealth and income inequality. As the world marks the one-year anniversary of the global coronavirus pandemic, calls are growing to seize that opportunity now.