The pandemic crisis has not become a financial crisis, there has been no shortage of humanitarian aid for the most vulnerable countries, and governments have aimed to alleviate the suffering of the weakest population segments, counteracting the increase in inequality.
In many countries, especially in the advanced ones and in Italy too, following the extremely sharp decline in production and in income last year, there are now signs of economic recovery, which in some cases are quite significant. Yet progress is still broadly unequal on both the healthcare and the economic front. Even where the outcome has been more encouraging, caution is still required.