Post-pandemic, will the world think big, or just get by?

Will world leaders rise to the challenges of building a new world once COVID-19 is behind us? Though preoccupied by immediate economic needs, there are signs that some have learned lasting lessons from the pandemic.

Few ideas have become as familiar in the year since the pandemic erupted than this one: that when it’s over, we will all have learned lessons that will serve to build a new and better world.

With governments poised to spend record sums on recovery, we’re about to find out how true that is.

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