How states respond to crisis : pandemic governance across the Global South / edited by Rachel M. Gisselquist, Andrea Vaccaro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gisselquist, Rachel M., editor.

Vaccaro, Andrea, editor.

World Institute for Development Economics Research, associated with work.

Series:

Studies in development economics

UNU-WIDER studies in development economics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Political aspects--Developing countries.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

Public health--Developing countries.

Public health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

Shedding new light on the nature of the state and its role in crisis response and development, this book brings together seven case study chapters authored by leading scholars of each country in a comparative study of how diverse states in the Global South responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Contents:

What COVID-19 can tell us about the state : a global look at the first year of the pandemic / Rachel M. Gisselquist and Andrea Vaccaro

Part II. Sub-Saharan Africa

Harnessing residual capacity : Ghana’s struggle against health system constraints in the COVID-19 response / Kofi Takyi Asante

The effects of limited capacity, ideational legitimacy, and weak authority on the Tanzanian state response to COVID-19 / Amy S. Patterson

Pandemic populism amid weak state capacity in the Philippines / Julio C. Teehankee

Local governance and COVID-19’s health impact : evidence from Vietnam / Duc Anh Dang and Anh Tran

Decentralization, state capacity, and inequality : explaining COVID-19 outcomes in Bolivia / Calla Hummel, V. Ximena Velasco Guachalla, Jami Nelson-Nuñez, and Carew Boulding

The devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Peru : the undermining role of vertical health policies in health systems / Camila Gianella

Nicaragua’s puzzling pandemic response / Mateo Jarquín.

Notes:

At foot of title: UNU Wider.

"A study prepared by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research UNU-WIDER."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 19, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: How states respond to crisis

ISBN:

9780198907237

0198907230

9780198907220

0198907222

9780198907213

0198907214

OCLC:

1500250047

Access Restriction:

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