This paper examines empirically the determinants of COVID-19 vaccine rollouts and their effects on health outcomes. We … assemble a comprehensive and novel cross-country database at a daily frequency on vaccinations and various health outcomes (new …’s health infrastructure, and vaccine acceptance are significant determinants of the speed of vaccination rollouts; (ii) vaccine …

Public health spending is low in emerging and developing economies relative to advanced economies and health outputs … and outcomes need to be substantially improved. Simply increasing public expenditure in the health sector, however, may … not significantly affect health outcomes if the efficiency of this spending is low. This paper quantifies the inefficiency …

establish an adequate and farsighted policy framework in the areas of pensions, health insurance, and labor market policies …

incorporates consumption, leisure, mortality and in equality, and we extend the methodology to include environmental externalities …

responses to the COVID-19 shock. We also find that initial conditions, such as fiscal space, income, health preparedness and …

emerging market economies to examine perceptions of government performance in managing the health and economic crisis, beliefs …

The paper uses firm-level data to assess the financial health of the Vietnamese non-financial corporate sector on the …