Government effectiveness and the COVID-19 pandemic
| dc.contributor.author | Chisadza, Carolyn | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gupta, Rangan | |
| dc.contributor.author | Clance, Matthew W. | |
| dc.contributor.email | carolyn.chisadza@up.ac.za | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-09-22T08:57:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-09-22T08:57:00Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-03-10 | |
| dc.description | Data Availability Statement: COVID-19 data were obtained from https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19, accessed on 2 September 2020. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to derail progress achieved in sustainable development. This study investigates the effectiveness of government policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, namely the number of deaths. Using the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) dataset for a global sample of countries between March and September 2020, we find a non-linear association between government response indices and the number of deaths. Less stringent interventions increase the number of deaths, whereas more severe responses to the pandemic can lower fatalities. The outcomes are similar for a sample of countries disaggregated by regions. These findings can be informative for policymakers in their efforts to mitigate the spread of the virus and save lives. | en_US |
| dc.description.department | Economics | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Chisadza, C.; Clance, M.; Gupta, R. Government Effectiveness and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Sustainability 2021, 13, 3042. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063042. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2071-1050 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.3390/su13063042 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/87289 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | MDPI | en_US |
| dc.rights | © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | en_US |
| dc.subject | COVID-19 pandemic | en_US |
| dc.subject | Policies | en_US |
| dc.subject | Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Government effectiveness | en_US |
| dc.subject | Number of deaths | en_US |
| dc.subject | Oxford COVID-19 government response tracker (OxCGRT) | en_US |
| dc.title | Government effectiveness and the COVID-19 pandemic | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |