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Tackling the pandemic of inequality

File photo dated March 1,2021 shows vendors selling seafood wait for customers at a traditional market, amid the spread of Covid-19 outbreak, in Jakarta, Indonesia). (Photo by REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan).

After two years of human devastation, the world is learning to live with Covid-19 while trying to balance the protection of public health and livelihoods.

For countries in Asia and the Pacific, this is challenging not only because national coffers are heavily strained by record public spending to mitigate pandemic suffering, but also due to deeper structural economic issues.

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