Working Paper
2 May 2025
Technological Autonomy or Global Integration: Navigating Vaccine Dependency in LMICs
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Vaccine hoarding during the Covid-19 pandemic exposed the urgent need for low- and middle-income countries to overcome technological dependency – not only to improve competitiveness and resilience but also to enhance global crisis response. Development scholarship has long emphasised the importance of building a distributed base of technological capabilities. But is technological capacity alone enough?
