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How education and GDP drive the COVID-19 vaccination campaign

Vu Minh Ngo; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Nguyen Van Phuc; … - 2021 - Draft: November 11, 2021

Since vaccination is the decisive factor for controlling the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to understand the process to vaccination success. We identify a variety of factors playing a crucial role including the availability of vaccines, pandemic pressures, economic strength (GDP),...

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the transformation of health policy : a syndemic perspective

Chen, Xi; Fan, Annie - 2021

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is bringing about once-in-a-century changes to human society. Three key properties escalate the COVID-19 pandemic into a syndemic. To address this triple crisis, we discuss the importance of integrating early, targeted and coordinated public...

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Race against time to save human lives during the COVID-19 with vaccines : global evidence

Nguyen Van Phuc; Toan Luu Duc Huynh; Vu Minh Ngo; Huan … - 2021

Voluminous vaccine campaigns are used globally since the COVID-19 pandemic owes devastating mortality and destructively unprecedented consequences on different aspects of economies. Notwithstanding different approaches to measure the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in clinical medicines, this...

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Covid-19 vaccines, innovation, and intellectual property rights

Cozzi, Guido; Galli, Silvia - 2022

the proliferation of immunity-escaping variants. Therefore governmental rationality around the world would suggest any …

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Re-examining adaptation theory using big data : reactions to external shocks

Greyling, Talita; Rossouw, Stephanié - 2022

During the global response to COVID-19, the analogy of fighting a war was often used. In 2022, the world faced a … different war altogether, an unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine. Since 2020 the world has faced these unprecedented shocks … investigate the effect on happiness. By investigating the aforementioned, we also re-examine the adaptation theory and see whether …

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Does the COVID-19 pandemic cause people to be unhappy? : evidence from a six-country survey

Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2021

Does the COVID-19 pandemic cause people unhappy? In this study, we use a recent survey from China, Japan, South Korea, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States to explore this question. We find a relatively large effect: a one per-mille point increase in the incidence of the COVID-19...

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Democracy and COVID-19 outcomes

Karabulut, Gokhan; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Bilgin, Mehmet … - 2021

More democratic countries are often expected to fail at providing a fast, strong, and effective response when facing a crisis such as COVID-19. This could result in higher infections and more negative health effects, but hard evidence to prove this claim is missing for the new disease. Studying...

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A literature review of the economics of COVID-19

Brodeur, Abel; Gray, David M.; Islam, Anik; Bhuiyan, … - 2020 - This version: July 5, 2020

The goal of this piece is to survey the emerging and rapidly growing literature on the economic consequences of COVID-19 and governmental responses, and to synthetize the insights emerging from a very large number of studies. This survey (i) provides an overview of the data sets used to measure...

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On recessive and expansionary impact of financial development : empirical evidence

Nguena, Christian Lambert; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2020

This paper mainly examines the effect of financial development on the recession, while controlling for potential recession factors. Using panel data of 129 countries spanning 1990-2010, we implemented "Locally Weighted Scatterplot Smoothing", "Local Linear" and "Iteratively Reweighted Least...

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Inequality and support for government responses to COVID-19

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Malesky, Edmund; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020

Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring these insights into the debates about comparative support for government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. We fill in this gap by analyzing rich survey data from six countries...

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