Political economy of covid-19: extractive, regressive, competitive

Jesse B Bump; Fran Baum; Milin Sakornsin; Robert Yates; Karen Hofman

doi:10.1136/bmj.n73

Political economy of covid-19: extractive, regressive, competitive

BMJ. 2021 Jan 22:372:n73. doi: 10.1136/bmj.n73.

Authors

Jesse B Bump¹, Fran Baum², Milin Sakornsin³, Robert Yates⁴, Karen Hofman⁵

Affiliations

¹ Takemi Program in International Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA bump@hsph.harvard.edu.
² Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity and WHO Collaborating Centre on the Social Political and Commercial Determinants of Health Equity, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
³ Partnership and International Relations Section, Thai Health Promotion Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand.
⁴ Chatham House, London, UK.
⁵ SAMRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science, PRICELESS SA University of Witwatersrand Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Johannesburg, South Africa.

PMID: 33483317
PMCID: PMC7819150
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.n73

Abstract

The political economy of covid-19 reflects longstanding patterns of resource extraction linked to racial discrimination, marginalisation, and colonialism, write Jesse Bump and colleagues

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / economics
COVID-19 / epidemiology*
COVID-19 / virology
Global Health / economics*
Healthcare Disparities / economics*
Humans
Pandemics / economics
Pandemics / prevention & control*
Politics*
SARS-CoV-2 / pathogenicity
Socioeconomic Factors