Political Economy of COVID-19: Understanding the Dynamics of a Global Pandemic, provides a theoretical, conceptual and methodological approach to the understanding of the pandemic through multiple case analyses. It produces and discusses COVID-19 research with interdisciplinary perspectives by addressing how the pandemic distinctly impacted the local and global economy and how numerous stakeholders responded. The book is truly global and interdisciplinary, through chapter contributions and case analysis from practitioners and emerging and established scholars. The ideas raised in this book have the potential to take central elements of post-pandemic political, social and economic thinking to a new line of inquiry and provide more compelling nuances. The book will be essential reading for researchers, students and scholars interested in development studies, political economy, historicity of the pandemic, conspiratorial debates and country specific policy response.
Luke Amadi holds a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria with specialization in political economy of development.
Prince Ikechukwu Igwe is political economist, policy and development expert.
Chapter 1: Controlling Infection Rate of COVID-19 on Vulnerable Areas: Identification of Spatial-Based Risk Factors
Chapter 2: Youth Engagement Through Civic Auditing of Public Funds During the COVID-19 Pandemic: the Case of the European Cohesion Policy
Chapter 3: From Climate Vulnerability to Global Economic Vulnerability (GEV): Conceptualizing Vulnerability in Post COVID-19 World Order
Chapter 4: Shivers in the Spine: Historicising Dilemmas and Hope During a Pandemic
Chapter 5: The Political Economy of Official Development Assistance (ODA) in Post Pandemic World Order: Review of Recent Empirical Studies
Chapter 6: The role of Civil Society Organizations in Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Zimbabwe Council of Churches
Chapter 7: COVID -19 and Livelihood Vulnerability in Developing Countries: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)
Chapter 8: Intersection of Conspiracy Theory and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Chapter 9: COVID-19 and Policy Measures for Agribusiness for Sustainable Food Security: Evidence from Nigeria
Chapter 10: Post COVID-19 Pandemic Recovery Policy Intervention and Sustainable Public Health Administration: A Study of the Vulnerable Groups in Rivers State, Nigeria