Crisis Narratives and the African Paradox: African Informal Economies, COVID-19 and the Decolonization of Social Policy [0.03%]
危机叙事与非洲悖论：非洲非正规经济、新冠疫情与社会政策的去殖民化
Kate Meagher
Kate Meagher
This article challenges the role of COVID-19 crisis narratives in shaping social policy choices in Africa. The COVID-19 pandemic has focused attention on Africa's vast informal economies, both as a symbol of the continent's intense vulnerab...
Juan Grigera
Juan Grigera
This article takes on the task of historicizing the global crisis that unfolded after the outbreak of COVID-19, focusing on its particular dynamics in Latin America. It proposes a distinction between a first phase - an unmitigated crisis th...
The Virus, the Dollar, and the Global Order: The COVID-19 Crisis in Comparative Perspective [0.03%]
病毒、美元和全球秩序：新冠疫情的比较视角
Ho-Fung Hung
Ho-Fung Hung
In 2003, the SARS pandemic led to a framework of global public health governance which was characterized by cooperation between the USA and China, and China's increasing influence in the World Health Organization. In the wake of the global ...
Control, Extract, Legitimate: COVID-19 and Digital Techno-opportunism across Africa [0.03%]
控制、提取、正当化：非洲的新冠疫情与数字技术机会主义
Josh Platzky Miller,Antoine Sander,Sharath Srinivasan
Josh Platzky Miller
Across Africa, the deployment of digital solutions such as track and trace apps and vaccine passports to tackle COVID-19 largely failed in their public health objectives. Yet, in the process, these material interventions revealed and unleas...
Adam Hanieh,Rafeef Ziadah
Adam Hanieh
This article explores the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on socio-economic development and political mobilization in the Middle East. It argues that beyond its direct public health implications, the pandemic is serving to intensify the ex...
C Sathyamala
C Sathyamala
It is two years since a microbe, SARS-CoV-2, a 'novel' coronavirus, travelled through the world to wreak havoc on the lives of humans across the globe. Although the total number of global COVID-19 deaths, currently estimated at 6 million, c...
Legitimating State Capital: The Global Financial Professions and the Transnationalization of Chinese Sovereign Wealth [0.03%]
正当的国家资本：全球金融职业与主权财富的跨国化
Imogen T Liu,Adam D Dixon
Imogen T Liu
Increasing Chinese investment has raised the spectre of strategic state influence in Europe, yet the transformative potential of state capital as a global phenomenon remains under-explored. This article sheds light on the dual imperatives o...
Nana de Graaff,Diliara Valeeva
Nana de Graaff
Chinese investments into Europe have been growing prodigiously in the past decade and are increasingly the subject of controversy. However, while a lot of empirical data and analysis are available on the flows and stocks of these investment...
COVID-19 and the Unequalizing Infrastructures of Financial Inclusion in Tamil Nadu [0.03%]
COVID-19与泰米尔纳德邦金融包容的不平等基础设施
Isabelle Guérin,Vincent Guermond,Nithya Joseph et al.
Isabelle Guérin et al.
This article discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on microfinance borrowers in Tamil Nadu, India. Through an examination of the social and financial infrastructures underpinning inclusive finance, the article demonstrates how the C...
Unsettling the American Dream: Mobility, Migration and Precarity among Translocal Himalayan Communities during COVID-19 [0.03%]
撼动美国梦：新冠疫情下跨地方喜马拉雅社区的流动性、迁徙与不稳定性
Tashi W Gurung,Emily Amburgey,Sienna R Craig
Tashi W Gurung
New York City (NYC) garnered significant national and international attention when it emerged as the coronavirus epicentre in the USA, in spring 2020. As has been widely documented, this crisis has disproportionately impacted minority, immi...