Barry Cannon's scientific contributions

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Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Bringing together a range of experts across various sectors, this important volume explores some of the key issues that have arisen in the Global South with the COVID-19 pandemic. Situating the worldwide health crisis within broader processes of globalisation, the book investigates implications for d...

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... Globally, the policy responses to contain the virus have been similar but were applied by individual countries with different levels of intensity in line with the evolution of the pandemic in the countries concerned. There are arguments that the universalized lockdown measures were likely to have little or no benefits for developing countries compared to the wealthier countries of the Global North due to their differing social and economic contexts (Cannon, 2020). In this chapter, we examine Zambia's policy response and lockdown measures in the context of the uncertainties over the consequences of adopting hard lockdown measures. ...