Our work at DCID has never been more important than it is right now. The pandemic continues to undermine decades of success at reducing extreme poverty in emerging economies, and it will certainly have further deleterious downstream effects on health, the environment, family and social structures, governance, and even conflict. Our vision over the next year is to prepare DCID to play a leading role in understanding the roots of these problems, devising policies to mitigate them, and equipping current and future leaders with the substantive knowledge and analytical tools to solve them in their own country contexts...