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.

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines the unique implications of the pandemic in the Global South. With international contributors from a variety of disciplines, it investigates the pandemic's effects on development, medicine, gender (in)equality and human rights among other issues.

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