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New epidemic waves are bearing down even on countries that thought they had the virus beat. But it is clear that some governments have deployed their resources, skills, and institutions much more effectively than others. Photo: Project Syndicate/Getty Images
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The brutal governance lessons of 2020

In addition to ushering in a massive economic and public-health crisis, Covid-19 has fully upended longstanding assumptions about effective governance. There are important lessons to be learned...