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Duterte’s pandemic populism: Strongman leadership, weak state capacity, and the politics of deployment in the PhilippinesThe outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic undermined the populist legacy of Philippine president Rodrigo R. Duterte. Despite implementing one of the longest and strictest lockdowns globally, the country has struggled with controlling the pandemic...
COVID-19 Pandemic PhilippinesWorking Paper
Does an effective government lower COVID-19’s health impact?: Evidence from Viet NamGovernment effectiveness has played an important role in tackling the crisis caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic...
COVID-19 Pandemic State effectivenessWorking Paper
Management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kerala through the lens of state capacity and clientelismDuring the first wave of COVID-19 infections, Kerala, a state in southern India, successfully managed to contain the pandemic. As a result, the Kerala model of managing the COVID-19 pandemic was celebrated as a success across the globe...
COVID-19 Pandemic State capacityWorking Paper
The COVID-19 pandemic and the state in BiharThis paper presents a critical analysis of official data related to COVID-19 in Bihar state, India, which points to the manipulation of data for political ends...
Data Pandemic COVID-19Working Paper
Pandemic precarity and the complicated case of Maharashtra: Interrogating state capacity and its fault linesThe state of Maharashtra and the city of Mumbai have been referred to as the epidemic epicentre of India since the time of the plague of 1896 and influenza epidemic of 1918...
Pandemic Migrants COVID-19 vaccineWorking Paper
Corruption and crisis: do institutions matter?While the short-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on lives and livelihoods are well understood, we know little about the effect of the pandemic for longer-term outcomes such as corruption...
Corruption Institutions CrisisWorking Paper
The global inequality boomerangThis paper focuses on the past and potential future evolution of income (or consumption) inequality in the world over the period 1981–2040...
Global inequality COVID-19 PandemicJournal Article
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the poor: Insights from the Hrishipara diariesWe examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the livelihoods of the poor in a semi-rural setting in Bangladesh...
COVID-19 Lockdown LivelihoodsWorking Paper
An assessment of the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on Kenya’s tradeWe examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Kenya’s foreign trade using quarterly trade data for the period 2019 to the second quarter of 2021...
Trade Kenya ExportsJournal Article
Analysis of the distributional effects of COVID-19 and state-led remedial measures in South AfricaThis study explores the impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa on income poverty and inequality in South Africa...
Social protection Tax-benefit microsimulation Income distributionBlog
Helping the poor to survive lockdownThe Hrishipara Daily Diaries Project has been tracking the daily spending of 60 poor households in rural Bangladesh for the last six years...
COVID-19 Lockdown LivelihoodsJournal Article
Life with Corona: Increased gender differences in aggression and depression symptoms due to the COVID-19 pandemic burden in GermanyGender differences (GD) in mental health have come under renewed scrutiny during the COVID-19 pandemic...
Pandemic Mental health Gender differencesBlog
Why countries best placed to handle the pandemic appear to have fared the worstDuring the first year of the pandemic, it was wealthier countries, with their comparatively stronger health systems, civil services, legal systems and other public services, that suffered the highest rates of COVID-19...
COVID-19 Pandemic StateWorking Paper
The role of trust and of poverty in compliance with social distancing measures in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemicSince it began, the COVID-19 pandemic has imposed a number of challenges on Africa and the rest of the world...
COVID-19 Trust AfricaWorking Paper
Forecasting recovery from COVID-19 using financial data: An application to Viet NamWe develop a new methodology to nowcast the effects of the COVID-19 crisis and forecast its evolution in small, export-oriented countries...
COVID-19 Pandemic ForecastingWorking Paper
COVID-19 and the stateWe expect effective state institutions to matter in a country’s ability to respond to crises...
COVID-19 Pandemic State