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State Fragility and Covid-19 pandemic: Implications on the political economy of Nigeria
The outbreak of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has seriously impacted negatively on the socio-economic and political activities in the international system. The pandemic has exposed the leadership capacities and health investments cum preparedness of countries across the globe. This paper studi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7890347/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34173511 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2021.100127 |
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author | Chidume, C.G. Oko-Otu, C.N. Aro, G.C. |
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description | The outbreak of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has seriously impacted negatively on the socio-economic and political activities in the international system. The pandemic has exposed the leadership capacities and health investments cum preparedness of countries across the globe. This paper studies the reactions and responses of nations in containing the deadly virus and observes that while Western nations react rapidly and more proactively, African nations seem to be caught in a web of religious prevarications and State fragility which has impugned on the efforts of States in containing the virus. The paper argues that the Nigerian government’s response so far in containing the virus is indicative of State fragility and that the prevailing perception of the virus as eschatological and nihilistic among the citizens, especially the very religious ones, may further obfuscate and mar government’s efforts in containing the virus. The paper will show how the government’s approach engenders a dire socioeconomic complication which may have more disastrous effects on the political economy of post Covid-19 Nigeria and suggested ways forward. |
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spelling | pubmed-78903472021-02-18 State Fragility and Covid-19 pandemic: Implications on the political economy of Nigeria Chidume, C.G. Oko-Otu, C.N. Aro, G.C. Social Sciences & Humanities Open Article The outbreak of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has seriously impacted negatively on the socio-economic and political activities in the international system. The pandemic has exposed the leadership capacities and health investments cum preparedness of countries across the globe. This paper studies the reactions and responses of nations in containing the deadly virus and observes that while Western nations react rapidly and more proactively, African nations seem to be caught in a web of religious prevarications and State fragility which has impugned on the efforts of States in containing the virus. The paper argues that the Nigerian government’s response so far in containing the virus is indicative of State fragility and that the prevailing perception of the virus as eschatological and nihilistic among the citizens, especially the very religious ones, may further obfuscate and mar government’s efforts in containing the virus. The paper will show how the government’s approach engenders a dire socioeconomic complication which may have more disastrous effects on the political economy of post Covid-19 Nigeria and suggested ways forward. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021 2021-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7890347/ /pubmed/34173511 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2021.100127 Text en © 2021 The Author(s) Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Chidume, C.G. Oko-Otu, C.N. Aro, G.C. State Fragility and Covid-19 pandemic: Implications on the political economy of Nigeria |
title | State Fragility and Covid-19 pandemic: Implications on the political economy of Nigeria |
title_full | State Fragility and Covid-19 pandemic: Implications on the political economy of Nigeria |
title_fullStr | State Fragility and Covid-19 pandemic: Implications on the political economy of Nigeria |
title_full_unstemmed | State Fragility and Covid-19 pandemic: Implications on the political economy of Nigeria |
title_short | State Fragility and Covid-19 pandemic: Implications on the political economy of Nigeria |
title_sort | state fragility and covid-19 pandemic: implications on the political economy of nigeria |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7890347/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34173511 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2021.100127 |
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