What the pandemic reveals about governance, state capture, and natural resources. 10/07/2020
Brookings Institution - Washington, DC
2020
epidemic disease ; government policy ; governance ; natural resources ; economic policy ; environment
Government and public administration
English
"The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the contrasting strengths and weaknesses in governance and leadership across the globe. Among high-income countries, many European states that have excelled in various governance dimensions, as measured by the annual Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI), have also addressed the pandemic well. These include the women-led Germany and the Nordic countries (except for Sweden). By contrast, the pandemic is raging in much of the United States, with well over 130,000 deaths and 3 million reported cases (accounting for one-quarter worldwide, with only 4 percent of the world's population)..."
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