Abstract
While the COVID-19 pandemic posits a significant challenge to all societies around the world, it also reveals in the most dramatic manner the many abysmal differences between so-called advanced economies and the developing world.
Open Access funding provided by ZBW — Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
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