FROM CRISIS TO COMPLEXITY: POST-COVID DEVELOPMENT, INFRASTRUCTURE, AND INEQUALITY IN MANAGEMENT

This article examines the far-reaching impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on global development, infrastructure management, and inequality. It explores how the crisis simultaneously fostered solidarity and exposed systemic weaknesses in healthcare, economies, and livelihoods, while accelerating wealth concentration among elites. Drawing on a development and management science perspective, the paper analyzes post-pandemic shifts in educational restructuring, economic recovery strategies, infrastructure renewal, and philanthropic geopolitics. It highlights the interplay between complexity and resilience, offering lessons for sustainable, inclusive progress in an increasingly unequal world.