Post COVID-19 era: Revealing the zero-sum nature of development
By Farai Chigaru Without exception, each one of us has only 24 hours a day. We spend each day in three different ways — productive; non-productive and counter-productive. An ideal mindset maximizes the productive hours, while minimizing the non-productive and counter-productive hours. As developed countries push the agenda to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, global demand for labor intensive products from labor abundant developing countries may decrease — leading to an inevitable zero-sum situation, with significant contraction of developing…
