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.

Foreword – Colm Brophy Introduction – Gerard McCann, Nita Mishra and Pádraig 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 – Pádraig 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 Martí i Puig and Manuel Alcántara Sáez 12. Vietnam’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic – Edward Lahiff, Pham Quang Minh and Nguyễn Trọng Chính Conclusion – Ashok Acharya

• Provides a specialist analysis of how the pandemic is affecting the most vulnerable regions, communities and people on earth; • Includes an international line-up of contributors and global coverage; • Contributors are from both academic institutions and international development organisations.