The coronavirus is not, as some would claim, a great leveller hitting everyone - rich and poor, men and women, black or white - equally. Instead, the coronavirus is shining a light on the levels of social inequality in our societies and setting the scene for the inevitable political backlash that can already be seen in the Black Lives Matter protests. The crisis gives fresh urgency to calls to better understand the distributional impacts of the health and economic crisis that is unfolding and use the economic recovery as an opportunity to deliver economic prosperity for all.
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