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Humanity over economy: Biopolitical responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana
McKeown, James - 2022
predictions. This paper critiques Ghana's responses to the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of Foucault's biopolitics. The main … and epidemiology. The research assesses Ghana's effectiveness in governing the COVID-19 pandemic contrary to apocalyptic … result of this study showed that Ghana survived the pandemic because of effective policies, not providence. The study also …
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Does an effective government lower COVID19's health impact? Evidence from Viet Nam
2022
Government effectiveness has played an important role in tackling the crisis caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19 …
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Eine wirtschaftspolitische Exit-Strategie aus dem Corona-Lockdown: Version 1.0
Bardt, Hubertus; Hüther, Michael - 2020
Die durch die Bekämpfung der Corona-Epidemie verursachte Dämmung des gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Lebens …The fight against the corona epidemic has led to an insulation of the social and economic life and will have …
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Failing to Pull Together: South Africa's Troubled Response to COVID-19
Naudé, Wim; Cameron, Martin - 2020
When South Africa implemented its non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) (its "lockdown") to stem the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, it was hailed as exemplary. By June 2020 however, the lockdown was in disarray: the number of confirmed infections continued to grow exponentially, placing the...
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Aus dem Lockdown ins neue Normal
Bardt, Hubertus; Hüther, Michael - 2021
Seit nahezu einem Jahr sehen sich Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft erheblichen Belastungen durch die gesundheitliche Bedrohung der Corona-Pandemie und den dadurch ausgelösten Beschränkungen ausgesetzt. Die Folgen waren bisher eine der schwersten Wirtschaftskrisen in der Geschichte der...
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Humanist algorithms for COVID-19 vaccines' distribution and its impact on business economics in the post-pandemic future
Gil-Aluja, Jaime; Gil-Lafuente, Jaime; Nowak, Martyna - In: European Research on Management and Business Economics … 27 (2021) 3, pp. 1-9
As the world is fighting against the continuous spread of the COVID-Sars-2 virus and the consequences the pandemic has brought about on economic, political and societal levels, the emergence of the vaccination programs seems to be the biggest hope for a quick return to, popularly called, the...
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Covid-19 and Islamic stock index: Evidence of market behavior and volatility persistence
Saleem, Adil; Bárczi, Judit; Sági, Judit - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14 (2021) 8, pp. 1-22
The aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic is not limited to human lives and health sectors. It has also changed social and economic aspects of the world. This study investigated the Islamic stock market's reaction and changes in volatility before and during this pandemic. The market model of event...
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COVID-19 incidence and the timing of quarantine measures and travel restrictions: A cross-country analysis
Pajaron, Marjorie C. - 2020
Recent data on COVID-19 would suggest that no country is inured to the adverse effects of this disease. Although experts somehow agree on the virulence of the COVID-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2), it is puzzling why some countries have experienced the full brunt of the virus while others appear to have...
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COVID-19 and the state
Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Vaccaro, Andrea - 2021
We expect effective state institutions to matter in a country's ability to respond to crises. Yet notably in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, what has stood out in simple global snapshots is that wealthier countries with stronger institutions have had the highest numbers of cases and...
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Tracking Chinese aid through China customs: Darlings and orphans after the COVID-19 outbreak
Fuchs, Andreas; Kaplan, Lennart; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; … - 2022
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, China's mask and vaccine diplomacy have been widely discussed, but the debate relies on a few stylized data points. This article introduces a systematic way to measure China's foreign aid in almost real-time through official customs records of...
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