Wealthy nations 'have the resources to narrow the great vaccine gap, if they want to,' Muhammad Yunus wrote.
with other Nobel laureates in pushing for an end to intellectual property barriers — pointed to the global inequality in access to vaccines.that it could take an additional two and a half years for the poorest countries to meet the World Health Organization’s target of vaccinating 70% of the world’s population.
“Wealth is power,” wrote Yunus. “And the brutally unequal global rollout of Covid-19 vaccines and treatments is a consequence of an ever-increasing concentration of wealth and focus on profit maximization.” Yunus went on to accuse “the wealthy nations, the G10, the continuous beneficiaries of the wealth-concentrating economic machine” of gaining from the current framework at the expense of the rest of the world. But these same wealthy nations, he said, “have the resources to narrow the great vaccine gap, if they want to.”
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