Canada must boost its foreign aid to combat a COVID-19 humanitarian crisis GlobeDebate
Children walk past tents at a displaced persons camp in the Khokha district of Yemen's western province of Hodeida on May 6, 2020.Kristen Hopewell is an associate professor of the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia.
Amid an unprecedented global health and economic crisis, Canada urgently needs to increase its aid to the world’s poorest and most vulnerable countries. While we face immense domestic challenges in responding to the novel coronavirus, the impact of the pandemic has been most dire in the developing world, where COVID-19 is rapidly creating a humanitarian emergency.
Hampered by weaker health systems and limited state capacity, developing countries are acutely vulnerable to the public-health crisis caused by COVID-19. And faced with the resulting economic crisis, they have limited resources to provide support to their populations.Developing countries have seen all of their major sources of revenue – including export earnings, remittances and tourism – plummet.
In the developing world, the collapse of incomes is a matter of life and death. Global lockdowns prohibit many of the world’s poor from working. Without work, many cannot eat. The UN World Food Program has
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