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

Description

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 socio-economic 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 socio-economic contexts in the world.

Gerard McCann is Senior Lecturer in International Studies and Head of International Programmes at St Mary's University College, a college of Queens University Belfast. Nita Mishra is Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick, and Chair of the Development Studies Association Ireland. Padraig Carmody is Professor in Geography at Trinity College Dublin, and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg.

"This book reminds us that health, prosperity and stability are indivisible, and that we need a holistic policy framework to meet the challenges of our time." Giovanni Farese, European University of Rome "A truly international and transdisciplinary effort, drawing on the on-the-ground experiences of different countries' responses to COVID-19 and highlighting the lessons from the experiences. A must-read for those interested in understanding how social, economic and political factors combined to mediate COVID's local impacts in the Global South and the evolution of policy responses over time." Francis Owusu, Iowa State University