How did the pandemic reveal the gap between Core and periphery nations?

Provide your
evidence and references. (Answer the question in NOT more than TEN sentences.)

The pandemic made a great impact and was actually an eye opener to the world that
showed the increasing gap between nations. A lot of obvious evidence showed the increasing
divergence or gap between the economic performances and coping of core and periphery nations.
First, is the ability of the nations to recover from the worst state that the pandemic gave them.
The core nations were able to recover or stabilize and handle each case the pandemic has brought
them, while the periphery nations are still struggling to cope and is still coming up with multiple
strategies to handle the unstable number of cases. Second, the periphery nations were greatly hit
by the financial and economic crises brought by the pandemic, it caused some countries just like
Philippines and other Asian countries under it to have big debts, have fragile export revenue, and
opportunity for ineffective and greedy government to take advantage of the situation, unlike the
core nations, who are able to get back on their feet despite the amount of damage the pandemic
has also caused them. This is because in times of periodical global financial and economic crises,
these core nations have a better, sensible public services, economic response, available resources,
and advantageous assets. Third, it was able to reveal the gap through the availability of existing
facilities of health care and the preparedness and resiliency of each country (in matters of law
and healthcare). Then lastly the behavior of their own citizens also shows the gap between the
nations (the confidence and reliance on science and expertise; citizen’s trust in the guidance of
their respective governments) and how citizens composed their individual “freedoms” despite the
pandemic.

References:
 COVID-19 and Global Inequality – IMF F&D. (2020).
Https://Www.Imf.Org/External/Pubs/Ft/Fandd/2020/09/COVID19-and-Global-
Inequality-Joseph-Stiglitz.Htm.

 The territorial impact of COVID-19: Managing the crisis and recovery across levels of
government. (2021, May 10). OECD. https://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/policy-
responses/the-territorial-impact-of-covid-19-managing-the-crisis-and-recovery-across-
levels-of-government-a2c6abaf/