The COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered major weaknesses in our global 

system. It has shown beyond doubt how the prevalence of poverty, weak health systems, lack of 

cducation, and above all sub-optimal global coopcration is aggravating the crisis. Be- sides its 

immcdiatc impact on hcalth, the socio-cconomic conscqucnces of the pan-demic are likcly to 

be felt by cconomic actors all over the world, and the populations of developing countries and 

economies in transition are expected to be among those most vulnerable to suffer from 

COVID-19-related challenges.

The economic impact of COVID-19 pandemic has also left its 

mark on Sustainable Development financing. Financing Sustainable Developmment is critical 

for the future of the countries of the Global South. These countries are dependent on a single 

source of financing i.e. the ODAs from thec developed Global North. It is estimated that the 

financing gap betwecn the pre and post pandemic times could increase by a whopping 70 

pcrccnt, owing to the fall in ODAs as a result of poor growth outlook in the devcoped 

countrics. 'The retreat from globalisation and the devastating impact of the pandemic on global 

economic growth needs to be dealt with an alternate strategy for financing Sustainable 

Development. The post-pandemic development finance needs to tap into muliple sources of 

financing that might include the public domestic resources, private sector linance, ODA from 

other governmens and philanthropies, remittances and South-South lows.

This book is an 

outcome of the first of its kind e-conference in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, tackling 

the qucstions of cconomic growth recovery in the Global South and financing sustainable 

dcvclopment among the poor and vulncrable commu-nities of the Global South.

Prof.(Dr.) 

Hebatallah Adam is Associate Professor, Assistant Dean for Acadcmic Affairs of Jindal School 

of International Affairs ISIA) and Executive director of Jindal Centre for the Global South 

O.P.Jindal Global University, Haryana - India. She is affiliated as well to the Department of 

Economics, Faculty of Business, Ain Shams University Cairo-Egypt where she has acquired 

more than 17 years of research and academic leaching experience.