Two leading experts agree it is not the end of globalization, but a restructuring of the global supply chains will most likely include reshoring, regionalization of supply chains, changes in international cooperation and a significant rethinking of global strategies for corporations.

“This is wrong not only in humanitarian terms but also would make the world less safe for Americans," writes Michael Merson in The Washington Post. Merson is a professor of global health at Duke University and visiting professor of global health at New York University. He led the World Health Organization Global Program on AIDS from 1990 to 1995, and is the author of “The AIDS Pandemic: Searching for a Global Response.” Read the op-ed.

“For any country with a functioning government,” writes DUCIGS fellow, professor Indermit Gill in the Brookings Institution blog , “the coronavirus crisis is a temporary economic shock, not a permanent one. It is not unreasonable to expect that with some help to strengthen (public and private) health systems and targeted assistance programs for the poor, governments in middle-income economies will be able to manage this shock. For the poorest countries, in addition, a moratorium on debt servicing is a good way to increase the resources available to governments. Permanent debt relief for profligate governments is not necessary, and it is bad economics.”

By Irene Park

This article was originally published in the Duke Chronicle on April 7, 2020 ( LINK ).

Nearly seven years ago, a new hashtag appeared. It was summer 2013, and George Zimmerman had just been acquitted after fatally...