{"title":"COVID-19 and Global Distributive Justice","authors":"J. S. Mah","doi":"10.1080/00213624.2023.2273162","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract COVID-19 has had a detrimental effect on the world economy. Serious inequality in terms of vaccination has been found between developed countries and developing countries. This article analyzes the development, production, and allocation of vaccines and other essential pharmaceutical products during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly from the viewpoint of global distributive justice. Analysis of this issue is expected to provide important lessons in preparing for future pandemics. This article analyzes how the world system could be strengthened and suggests ways to reform the World Trade Organization system regarding the special and differential treatment afforded to developing countries.","PeriodicalId":47706,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Issues","volume":"52 1","pages":"1322 - 1338"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Economic Issues","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00213624.2023.2273162","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"ECONOMICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abstract COVID-19 has had a detrimental effect on the world economy. Serious inequality in terms of vaccination has been found between developed countries and developing countries. This article analyzes the development, production, and allocation of vaccines and other essential pharmaceutical products during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly from the viewpoint of global distributive justice. Analysis of this issue is expected to provide important lessons in preparing for future pandemics. This article analyzes how the world system could be strengthened and suggests ways to reform the World Trade Organization system regarding the special and differential treatment afforded to developing countries.
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The Journal of Economic Issues is an internationally respected journal of institutional and evolutionary economics and serves as the official journal of the Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE). JEI publishes articles that describe aspects of evolving economies, economic problems, economic policy, economic history, and methodology. The primary mission of JEI is to present articles that use and develop the core ideas of institutional economics in discussions of current economic problems and policy alternatives. JEI is the leading journal for ongoing debate of institutional economic theory and a major forum for discussion of solutions to real economic problems.