Les tissus fabriqués en Chine ont sapé le monopole dont jouissaient autrefois les commerçants togolais sur le commerce des textiles imprimés africains néerlandais.
- Reader, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester
Chinese manufactured cloth has undermined the monopoly on the trade of Dutch African print textiles that Togolese traders once enjoyed.
India is sending doses overseas again, but exports are unlikely to properly ramp up until all Indian adults have been vaccinated.
The vaccine-sharing initiative is still without its biggest donor – India – while rich countries are diverting spare doses towards youth and booster programmes.
Increased demand and falling supplies in India risk leaving many countries empty handed.
With richer countries having bought up most of the leading western vaccines, others are looking to India, China and Russia for supplies.
India could help overcome ‘vaccine nationalism’ because it is the major supplier of medicines to the global south.
A lot depends on China and India sharing the products of their pharmacuetical manufacturing with the rest of the world.
The movement against globalisation has shifted from developing to developed countries.
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