COVID-19, the Global South and the Pandemic’s Development Impact

✍ Scribed by Gerard McCann (editor); Nita Mishra (editor); Pádraig Carmody (editor)

• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 226
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Though a globally shared experience, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected societies across the world in radically different ways. This book examines the unique implications of the pandemic in the Global South. With international contributors from a variety of disciplines including health, economics and geography, the book investigates the pandemic’s effects on development, medicine, gender (in)equality and human rights, among other issues. Its analysis illuminates further subsequent crises of interconnection, a pervasive health provision crisis and a resulting rise in socioeconomic inequality. The book’s assessment offers an urgent discourse on the ways in which the impact of COVID-19 can be mitigated in some of the most challenging socioeconomic contexts in the world.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Covid-19, the Global South and the Pandemic's Development Impact
Copyright information
Table of contents
List of Figures and Tables
List of abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Introduction
PART I Perspectives and Theory
One Surviving Necropolitical Developments amid Democratic Disinformation: A Pandemic Perspective from Brazil
Reactionary politics and the epistemic determinants of health
‘Democratic’ disinformation? Brazil’s ‘early treatment’ response
Necropolitics or survival? Disappearance in the flames
Note
References
Two COVID-19, International Development and the Global Economy
The inequality virus
Neoliberal retreat?
Entrenched neoliberalism amid emerging neo-Keynesianism
References
Three Global Finance and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa
Historical patterns of flows
Notes
References
Four COVID-19 Vaccine Inequality and Global Development: A Primer
Vaccine nationalism and the scramble for COVID-19 vaccines
COVAX and the struggle for vaccine equity
An ongoing challenge for, and portal on, global development
References
Part II Policy Context
Five Corporate Social Responsibility in the Time of Pandemic: An Indian Overview
Corporate Social Responsibility: beyond charity
Corporate Social Responsibility: the Indian scenario
Corporate Social Responsibility and the pandemic
Notes
References
Six Local Community and Policy Solutions to a Global Pandemic
Producing PPE locally
PPE efficacy and its lasting impact
COVID-19 politicized
COVID-19 deaths
Tanzania’s comparative health performance in Eastern and Southern Africa
Local responses to COVID-19
Notes
References
Seven Pandemic Structure and Blowback: Endemic Inequality and the New (ab)Normal
The pandemic cycle and structure
The financialization of health
Breaking the cycle
References
Eight Ending a Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic
The scramble for vaccines during the covid crisis
Scaling up while preserving a demand–supply imbalance
A better approach to pandemic threats
References
Part III Regional and Community Responses
Nine Coping Mechanisms of Communities in Odisha
A human rights-based approach
State government role in managing the COVID-19 pandemic
People’s Cultural Centre’s women’s self-help groups
Youth engaging in COVID-19 relief activities
References
Ten To Lockdown or Not to Lockdown: A Pragmatic Policy Response to COVID-19 in Zambia
The emergence of COVID-19
COVID-19 policy choices and lockdown measures
COVID-19 lockdown measures in Zambia
References
Eleven Latin America: Politics in Times of COVID-19
The response to the crisis: the reaction of governments, political and social actors
Who communicated with the public and how?
Which institution has taken the leadership role?
Has anyone objected?
What kind of public policies have been promoted?
Latin American democracies after the pandemic: weary or sick?
Note
References
Twelve Vietnam’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
The spread of COVID-19 in 2020 and the response of the state and society
2021: the fourth wave
2022: Omicron, mass vaccination and an end in sight?
Note
References
Conclusion
Index
Back Cover