👥🌐 Almost two years after the spread of the coronavirus, all major social challenges and problems remain relevant.
🔹 Despite the higher mortality rate among the elderly, the aging of the population has not gone away. It continues to affect the processes in the labour market, public finances, and the slowdown in economic growth.
🔹 Technological change and the trend towards digitalisation remain with us, and have even accelerated.
🔹 The temporary reduction in migration flows due to the closure of sectors of the economy and borders only emphasised the almost invisible, but important role of migrants in safeguarding our lives.
🔹 At the same time, the pandemic showed a clear link between inequality and the magnitude of losses, not only economic or social, but also on a human scale. The phenomenon of higher mortality in countries with higher income inequality, known even before the pandemic, has received new empirical confirmation.
The coronavirus pandemic, while serving as a powerful shake-up, did not become the key to solving the accumulated social problems. High income inequality, often perceived as unfair, provokes an increase in social tension, which, in the absence of social cohesion, finds very crooked answers, writes Valdai Club expert Oksana Sinyavskaya.
🔗 The Coronavirus Pandemic: A Key to Solving Social Problems or a Catalyst for Them?
#Global_Governance #coronavirus #pandemic #society
@valdai_club — The Valdai Discussion Club
🔹 Despite the higher mortality rate among the elderly, the aging of the population has not gone away. It continues to affect the processes in the labour market, public finances, and the slowdown in economic growth.
🔹 Technological change and the trend towards digitalisation remain with us, and have even accelerated.
🔹 The temporary reduction in migration flows due to the closure of sectors of the economy and borders only emphasised the almost invisible, but important role of migrants in safeguarding our lives.
🔹 At the same time, the pandemic showed a clear link between inequality and the magnitude of losses, not only economic or social, but also on a human scale. The phenomenon of higher mortality in countries with higher income inequality, known even before the pandemic, has received new empirical confirmation.
The coronavirus pandemic, while serving as a powerful shake-up, did not become the key to solving the accumulated social problems. High income inequality, often perceived as unfair, provokes an increase in social tension, which, in the absence of social cohesion, finds very crooked answers, writes Valdai Club expert Oksana Sinyavskaya.
🔗 The Coronavirus Pandemic: A Key to Solving Social Problems or a Catalyst for Them?
#Global_Governance #coronavirus #pandemic #society
@valdai_club — The Valdai Discussion Club
Valdai Club
The Coronavirus Pandemic: A Key to Solving Social Problems or a Catalyst for Them?
The coronavirus pandemic, while serving as a powerful shake-up, did not become the key to solving the accumulated social problems. High income inequality, often perceived as unfair, provokes an increase in social tension, which, in the absence of social cohesion…