Editor’s conversations: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

“It’s not about helping Africa or helping low-income countries,” says Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. “It's about our common good, because these variants will come back if people are not vaccinated.” At a live event exclusively for subscribers, the director-general of the World Trade Organisation was talking to The Economist's editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, about the challenge of distributing covid-19 vaccines fairly, the evolving role of the WTO and the future of globalisation in an increasingly polarised world. You can watch the conversation in full below.