We expect effective state institutions to matter in a country's ability to respond to crises. Yet notably in the first … relationships in the cross-country data, drawing on measures of the state, COVID's health impact, and pandemic policy response. In … between state effectiveness and pandemic health outcomes does in fact pertain. Our findings also offer insight into how …

Community resilience has become an important concern due to the increasing scale and frequency of natural and … process that captures all the key sectors of a community. This paper introduces an holistic approach to measure community … resilience by specifying the Human, Social, Physical, Natural, Financial and Political sectors of a community [labeled the six …