TY - BOOK ID - 133397366 TI - Equitable Access to Vaccines: Myth or Reality? AU - Hakobyan, Shushanik. AU - Rawlings, Henry. AU - Yao, Jiaxiong. PY - 2022 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Macroeconomics KW - Economics: General KW - Vaccinations KW - Diseases: Contagious KW - Demography KW - Health: General KW - Health: Government Policy KW - Regulation KW - Public Health KW - Health Behavior KW - Demographic Economics: General KW - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution KW - Economic & financial crises & disasters KW - Economics of specific sectors KW - Vaccination KW - Infectious & contagious diseases KW - Population & demography KW - Health economics KW - COVID-19 KW - Health KW - Population and demographics KW - Income inequality KW - National accounts KW - Currency crises KW - Informal sector KW - Economics KW - Communicable diseases KW - Population KW - Income distribution KW - United States UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:133397366 AB - Fighting the COVID-19 pandemic required vaccinations; however, ending it requires vaccination equality. The progress in vaccinations varies greatly across countries, with low- and middle-income countries having much lower vaccination rates than advanced countries. Initially, the limited vaccine supply was in part to blame for slow pace of vaccinations in low-income countries. But as the supply constraints eased toward the end of 2021, the focus has shifted to in-country distribution challenges and vaccine hesitancy. This paper quantifies the importance of various factors in driving vaccination rates across countries, including vaccine deliveries, demographic structure, health and transport infrastructure and development level. It then estimates the contribution of these factors to vaccination inequality. We show that much of the vaccination inequality in 2021-22 was driven by the lack of access to vaccines which is beyond countries’ control. And although vaccination inequality declined over time, access to vaccines remains the dominant driver of vaccination inequality. ER -