“An Endless Cycle of Worry and Hardship”: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Food Security of Somali Migrants and Refugees in Nairobi, Kenya by Zack Ahmed, Jonathan Crush, Bernard Owusu

“…Urban migrants and refugees in many parts of the Global South have been disproportionately hit by these measures, increasing the precarity of their living conditions and exacerbating the food insecurity of the migrants’ households. …”
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Challenges and Prospects of Deploying AI and Machine Learning for Clinical Diagnosis in African Healthcare by Edmund Terem Ugar

“…Although these advancements have exhibited their relevance and effectiveness in medically advanced regions of the Global North and selected areas in the Global South, the question arises as to their viability within the healthcare landscape of Africa, given contextual variations. …”
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Sense of Balance in Indian Conceptualisation of Psychological Well-being by Joseph Jeyaraj Swaminathan, Giuseppe Crea, Zbigniew Formella

“…The concept of psychological well-being (PWB) engages the attention of those who live in the Global North, as well as those in the Global South. Similar to the Western concept of PWB, its Indian conceptualisation too, has a long history dating back to at least 3,000 years. …”
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Informal Cross-Border Traders and Food Trade during the Global Pandemic in Zimbabwe by Abel Chikanda

“…The paper also discusses how informal cross-border trading (ICBT) and informal food trading in Zimbabwe have changed in the post-COVID-19 period and sets a research agenda on understanding the role of ICBT in the economies of countries in the Global South. …”
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Becoming an entrepreneur in the Metropole: resisting incubators’ recolonizing attempts by Severine Le Loarne Lemaire, Gloria Haddad, Rola Al Ali, Gaël Bertrand

“…Secondly, it extends the applicability of colonialist theory beyond traditional Global South contexts, demonstrating its relevance within immigrant communities from former colonies. …”
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Student experiences of attending the first online Southern African Students Psychology Conference at an open distance e-learning university in South Africa by Janice K Moodley-Marie, Bianca Parry, Itumeleng Masisi

“…Opportunities for using the student conference space as a site of decolonisation are explored to contribute to the dearth of scholarly literature aimed at actively incorporating student’s voices in the decolonialisation of academic spaces in the Global South.…”
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The evolution and driving mechanism of education inequality in China: From 2003 to 2020. by Yuanzhi Guo, Xuhong Li

“…In addition, the research on the evolution and internal mechanism of educational development inequality in China can also provide experience and reference for the Global South. Therefore, we construct a comprehensive evaluation index system to measure the level of regional educational development, reveal the regional inequalities in China's educational development, and employ spatial econometric model to dissect the factors influencing the regional inequalities. …”
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Commentary on “Social protection and the International Monetary Fund: promise versus performance” by Alexander Kentikelenis and Thomas Stubbs by James Pfeiffer

“…Abstract Background The Covid pandemic and its aftermath have triggered new alarm and social unrest across the Global South over the deepening international debt crisis that now threatens to derail Universal Health Coverage (UHC), other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), future pandemic preparedness, and global warming mitigation. …”
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The case of the preferred worker - three guidelines to a decolonial research agenda on meaningful work by GUSTAVO SANTOS DIAS BARRETO

“…The findings from this study can guide efforts to develop decolonized workplaces that free subalterns from conforming to the preferred worker archetype and contribute to the economic and social goals of countries in the Global South.…”
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The intersection of Christian education and philosopher-feminist thought: Addressing child marriage in Indonesia by Alfonso Munte

“…One of the global challenges addressed in this article, particularly in the Global South, is the high prevalence of child marriage. …”
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Retrieving parameters of agile cities: A systematic literature review by Salma Anwar, Abeer Elshater, Samy Afifi, Ayat Ismail, Hebatullah Ghalib

“…This study addresses the challenge of creating agile, adaptable urban environments in the Global South, utilizing technology, innovation, and sustainability to respond to evolving challenges. …”
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Building capacities for oriented innovation: Argentina’s response to COVID-19 from a gender perspective by Leila Mucarsel, Ana Clara Barile, Meera Bhat

“…The objective is to understand which capabilities are key to address complex social issues in the Global South and how they can be nurtured. Through a theoretical framework that articulates the literature on “dynamic public sector capacities” and “state capacities” in Latin America – and the application of a qualitative methodology (case study), we find that state capacities were strengthened by reconfiguring pre-existing resources based on a government project, collective leadership, and a series of institutional and political innovations in the context of the rise of regional feminisms. …”
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Eco-anxiety, climate change and the ‘bottom billion’: a plea for better understanding by Colin David Butler

“…However, the populations who are most vulnerable to climate change are disproportionately poor and live in the Global South, where evidence for eco-anxiety (or climate) anxiety is limited, especially among those who have been called the ‘bottom billion’, approximately the global population’s poorest decile. …”
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Unmasking the Diversionary Global Imperial Designs in the Invasion of Libya in 2011, ten years on, and counting by Chidochashe Nyere

“…As such, the UN was used as a vehicle for the powerful located in the Global North to punish a member of the weak Global South. Therefore, the Libyan invasion by NATO forces further entrenched the colonial global power structural configuration of the Euro-North American-centric world. …”
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The Clinical Sociology Honours Programme at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in South Africa by Mariam Seedat-Khan, Jayanathan Govender

“…Graduate studies in Clinical and Applied Sociology is limited in South Africa and the global South, therefore a postgraduate degree focused on applying interdisciplinary perspectives in diverse social contexts was initiated. …”
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Factors influencing the implementation of a teacher professional development program to improve teaching quality by Lucas Silva Didier, Kim Schildkamp, Adrie J. Visscher, Roel J. Bosker

“…This study provides important insights into the conditions necessary for successful TPD implementation in a global south country.…”
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Anxiety and depression screening reveals the importance of advancing mental health support for Haitian healthcare providers by Youri Encelotti Louis, Brooke Betson, Samy Auguste

“…Despite the recent momentum of mental health advocacy and resource allocation in several nations worldwide, the same progress is yet to be experienced in Haiti and other countries in the global south. In addition to the ongoing humanitarian crisis that continues to pre-dispose the people of Haiti to a variety of health conditions and mental illnesses, Haitian healthcare providers face further vulnerability to mental illness due to the high-stress nature of their work in a resource-limited environment. …”
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Regime Change: The Need for Scientific Critical Consciousness by Usama Javed Mirza

“…By not tackling them head-on, curricula risk dangerously misleading students about the nature of science, its legacy and place in the world; aggravating socio-economic inequality perpetuated by centuries of European colonialism of the Global South. These misleading ideas include Eurocentrism, viewing religion as irrational and Western science as superior to indigenous knowledge systems. …”
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Analyses of house-owners’ awareness and compliance with urban greenery regulations in Madina, Ghana by Seth Akagla, Yaw Agyeman Boafo

“…Although the benefits of urban greenery, including biodiversity conservation, pollution mitigation, and reduction of urban heat island effects, are widely recognized, adherence to corresponding building regulations poses a significant challenge in many Global South countries, including Ghana. This study investigated the compliance with urban greenery regulations among house owners in Madina, a rapidly urbanizing suburb of Accra, Ghana. …”
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Design of Urban Indicators to Optimize the Implementation of Low-Impact Techniques in Semi-Arid Cities by Valeria Volpi-León, Juan Carlos Seck-Tuoh-Mora, Carlos Alfredo Bigurra-Alzati, Alma Delia Juárez-Sedano, Liliana Lizárraga-Mendiola

“…This research proposes indicators based on urban, demographic, and hydrological parameters to assess the effectiveness of low-impact development (LID) techniques, such as rooftop rainwater harvesting, aimed at reducing water scarcity in a residential area vulnerable to water shortages in a semi-arid city in the Global South. Additionally, hydrological design conditions are defined to estimate the potential volumes of recoverable water. …”
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