The novel human coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic coupled with the enforced lockdown to contain its spread has wrecked unequivocal havoc on the economy front in which the agriculture sector is no exception. Though the Union Government in India rightly kept agricultural activities out of...

This paper uses the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study to investigate the direct and indirect effect of beliefs of others on respondent's own beliefs and on their individual consumer sentiment. In a new online consumer survey with randomized control trials (RCTs) in Thailand and Vietnam, we...

The government’s anti-COVID efforts in the United States have been seen to reduce unnecessary social mobility, curb the spread of the virus, and lower COVID-related mortality; however, these impacts vary by state. In this paper, we aim to explain the heterogeneity in policy efficacy from an...

Terrorism is viewed as violence perpetrated by individuals within or outside the government that is specifically directed against civilian or government institution as a way of calling attention to perceived, real or imaginary injustices in a clandestine manner. This paper tends to examine the...

This paper examines the role of some Regional African Organizations and Bodies such as the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States and the Southern African Development Community in the plight of Africans and movement. An overview of migration, displacement and refugees shows...

Conflict is one concept that inevitably finds its way to co-exist amongst human society because every man needs another to get by and in the process of communication and building relationships, conflicts often arise, owing to the fact that as there are different interests, motivations, choices...

Health care systems need to be resilient to deal with disasters like the global spread of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) on top of serving the changing needs of a multi-morbid, ageing and often dispersed population. This paper identifies, discusses and augments...

This paper investigates how persistent changes in trust caused by the Great Recession have affected how governments and citizens across Europe responded to the next global crisis: the COVID-19 pandemic. We show that increases in individualism and mistrust towards institutions caused by...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in late February of 2022 caused a humanitarian refugee crisis on a scale unseen since World War II. The scale and speed at which refugees surged into other European countries required significant resources to respond to this influx. This study explores the...

Economists broadly agree on many key economic policy issues, but economics as a discipline has provided much less guidance on why and how economic policy reform occurs and how to develop institutional mechanisms that enable governments to adopt “good” economic policy. Political scientists...