For the big challenges we need more than money. We need smart governance

Governments across the globe are adapting to the Covid challenge in different ways and with different degrees of success. Governance is key to successful adaptation. Countries’ responses have differed in both the quantity and the quality of actions taken. Many governments have committed colossal sums with a ‘whatever it takes’ mentality. But if there is one thing we learned from the 2008 financial crisis, it is that injecting trillions into the economy will have little effect if the structures they are spent on are weak. We cannot risk that happening again.

Can we produce enough PPE for frontline workers? Enough ventilators