TY - JOUR
T1 - Direct Management of COVID-19 at National and Subnational Level
T2 - The Case of the Western Amazon Countries
AU - Weber, Gabriel
AU - Cabras, Ignazio
AU - Ometto, Paola
AU - Peredo, Ana Maria
PY - 2021/12/1
Y1 - 2021/12/1
N2 - This paper analyses direct management of COVID-19 in Brazil, Colombia and Peru, the three largest countries in the Western Amazon region. Using information gathered from different sources and analysing them through comparative case studies and content analysis, this study reveals the scale of disruption endured by Indigenous communities living in the region caused by COVID-19. While findings identify several shortcomings and failures in policies adopted by national and local governments in dealing with the pandemic, they also highlight how some Latin American countries used the crisis to introduce reforms to deepen neoliberal New Public Management (NPM) policies and practices.
AB - This paper analyses direct management of COVID-19 in Brazil, Colombia and Peru, the three largest countries in the Western Amazon region. Using information gathered from different sources and analysing them through comparative case studies and content analysis, this study reveals the scale of disruption endured by Indigenous communities living in the region caused by COVID-19. While findings identify several shortcomings and failures in policies adopted by national and local governments in dealing with the pandemic, they also highlight how some Latin American countries used the crisis to introduce reforms to deepen neoliberal New Public Management (NPM) policies and practices.
KW - Crisis management
KW - Extractivism
KW - Indigenous people
KW - New public management
KW - Pandemic responses
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85116478501&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11115-021-00565-x
DO - 10.1007/s11115-021-00565-x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85116478501
SN - 1566-7170
VL - 21
SP - 741
EP - 757
JO - Public Organization Review
JF - Public Organization Review
IS - 4
ER -