WTO Vaccine Deal Looks Long on Good Intent, Short on Support
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director general of the World Trade Organization.
Photographer: Andressa Anholete/BloombergIn trade negotiations, sometimes the sign of a good compromise is that nobody is entirely happy with the deal.
By that standard last month’s World Trade Organization agreement to waive intellectual-property protections for Covid-19 vaccines is the deal of the century.