Uneven Economic Development and Its Global Consequences

ABSTRACT

The deep economic lag of developing countries contributes to the spread of new global threats to the world community, namely, pandemics, climate change, the takeover of Europe and North America by flows of refugees from Africa, Asia, South and Central America. The limited economic opportunities of developing countries for vaccination and adoption of sanitary and epidemiological measures create the preconditions for the return of pandemic waves to the countries of the developed world. In addition, the relative poverty of many developing countries inhibits the substitution of coal with renewable sources of energy, limiting possibil-ities to preserve the planet's climate. The uneven economic development of countries is the most important driver of increasing migrant flows to Europe and the United States. The article substantiates the effectiveness of a number of additional measures to bring the level of economic development of the countries of the developing world closer to developed countries. Some elements of the concept of the future world order are proposed. The high uncertainty of the future evolution of the virus, the threats of global warming, forces the world community to change in order to overcome the global threats of the spread of COVID-19 pandemic waves, climate change and uncontrolled migration. © 2022, Institute of Europe Russian Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.