By Pamela Coke-HamiltonGENEVA – Like farmers planning the following season’s crop, we must now sow the seeds of the post-pandemic future we want.

By Landry Signe and Ameenah Gurb-FakimWASHINGTON, DC/PORT LOUIS – The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected developed and developing countries alike, despite vast disparities in initial response capacities.

By Mariana Mazzucato, Reda Cherif and Fuad HasanovLONDON — Research to develop a safe, effective and widely available COVID-19 vaccine is advancing rapidly. But when it will happen is not clear. Much depends on how we govern the production and distribution of new drugs.

By Ana Maria Hernandez Salgar BOGOTA — There is no longer any doubt that the triple crisis of COVID-19, climate change, and biodiversity loss threatens to upend countless lives and livelihoods.

By Arvind Subramanian and Josh Felman  NEW DELHI – How will COVID-19 affect developing countries’ growth prospects? The answer will depend largely on how globalisation – and intellectual support for it – evolves in the pandemic’s aftermath.

By Jeremy Adelman and Andrew ThompsonPRINCETON — The contest over national symbols and stories is shifting into higher gear as the drive to topple statuary and rename institutions moves past the usual suspects of Cecil Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Confederate generals and Belgium’s Ki

By Bertrand Badre and Aurelie JeanPARIS — Trust will be key to the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and recession. Yet, over the past ten years, people’s trust in governments, public and private institutions, and one another has declined across many of the advanced economies.

By Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Adeeba KamarulzamanPARIS/KUALA LUMPUR — The emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has not only led to the global COVID-19 pandemic, but also fuelled an accompanying onslaught of misinformation.

By Hrishabh Sandilya, Kyriaki Chatzipanagiotou, and Sarah MorsheimerNICOSIA — Earlier this month, six boats carrying Syrian and Lebanese migrants set sail from northern Lebanon and attempted to dock in Cyprus.