COVID-19 and the case for global development

Johan Oldekop; Rory Horner; David Hulme; Roshan Adhikari; Bina Agarwal; Matthew Alford; Oliver Bakewell; Nicola Banks; Stephanie Barrientos; Tanja Bastia; Anthony Bebbington; Upasak Das; Ralitza Dimova; Richard Duncombe; Charis Enns; David Fielding; Christopher Foster; Timothy Foster; Tomas Frederiksen; Ping Gao; Tom Gillespie; Richard Heeks; Samuel Hickey; Martin Hess; Nicholas Jepson; Ambarish Karamchedu; Uma Kothari; Aarti Krishnan; Tom Lavers; Aminu Mamman; Diana Mitlin; Negar Monazam Tabrizi; T.R Müller; Khalid Nadvi; Giovanni Pasquali; Rose Pritchard; Kate Pruce; Christopher Rees; Jaco Renken; Antonio Savoia; Seth Schindler; Annika Surmeier; Gindo Tampubolon; Matthew Tyce; Vidhya Unnikrishnan; Yin-Fang Zhang

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105044

COVID-19 and the case for global development

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COVID-19 accentuates the case for a global, rather than an international, development paradigm. The novel disease is a prime example of a development challenge for all countries, through the failure of public health as a global public good. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the falsity of any assumption that the global North has all the expertise and solutions to tackle global challenges, and has further highlighted the need for multi-directional learning and transformation in all countries towards a more sustainable and equitable world. We illustrate our argument for a global development paradigm by examining the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic across four themes or 'vignettes': global value chains, digitalisation, debt, and climate change. We conclude that development studies must adapt to a very different context from when the field emerged in the mid-20th century.

Original language	English
Article number	105044
Pages (from-to)	1-4
Number of pages	4
Journal	World Development
Volume	134
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105044
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2020

Keywords

COVID-19
Climate Change
Debt
Development Studies
Digitalisation
Global Development
Global Value Chains
International Development
Pandemic

Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

Global Development Institute

UN SDGs

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Hulme, D. (PI), Anderson, K. (CoI), Bottacin Busolin, A. (CoI), Dimova, R. (CoI), Foster, T. (CoI), Harou, J. (CoI), Imai, K. (CoI), Larkin, A. (CoI), Lavers, T. (CoI), Mancarella, P. (CoI), Mutale, J. (CoI), Panteli, M. (CoI), Sen, K. (CoI) & Whittington, D. (CoI)
1/10/17 → 31/12/21
Project: Research

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COVID-19 and the case for global development

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