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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.

Contents:

Foreword - Colm Brophy
Introduction - Gerard McCann, Nita Mishra and Padraig Carmody
Part I: Perspectives and Theory
1. Surviving Necropolitical Development amid Democratic Disinformation: A Pandemic Perspective from Brazil - Su-Ming Khoo and Mayara Floss
2. COVID-19, International Development and the Global Economy - Stephen McCloskey and Amit Prakash
3. Global Finance and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa - Howard Stein and Rick Rowden
4. COVID-19 Vaccine Inequality and Global Development: A Primer - Rory Horner
Part II: Policy Context
5. Corporate Social Responsibility in the Time of Pandemic: An Indian Overview - Sujay Ghosh and Naveen Das
6. Local Community and Policy Solutions to a Global Pandemic - Pieternella Pieterse
7. Pandemic Structure and Blowback: Endemic Inequality and the New (ab)Normal - Padraig Carmody and Gerard McCann
8. Ending the Pandemic - Zeke Ngcobo and Thomas Pogge
Part III: Regional and Community Responses
9. Coping Mechanisms of Communities in Odisha: A Human Rights-Based Approach to the COVID-19 Pandemic - Nita Mishra, Sushree Sailani Suman and Anuradha Mohanty
10. To Lockdown or Not to Lockdown: A Pragmatic Policy Response to COVID-19 in Zambia - Chrispin Matenga and Munguzwe Hichambwa
11. Latin America: Politics in Times of COVID-19 - Salvador Marti i Puig and Manuel Alcantara Saez
12. Vietnam's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic - Edward Lahiff, Pham Quang Minh and Nguyen Trong Chinh
Conclusion - Ashok Acharya