Gebka, Bartosz;
Kanungo, Rama;
Wildman, John;
(2024)
The transition from COVID-19 infections to deaths: Do governance quality and corruption affect it?
Journal of Policy Modeling
10.1016/j.jpolmod.2024.01.002.
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Abstract
We investigate the impact of governance quality and corruption on the propensity of COVID-19 infections to result in deaths, while controlling for a wide range of socio-economic country characteristics, for 139 countries. Governance quality is negatively associated with mortality from COVID-19, for a given number of infections. This result holds for the aggregate governance index and for most of its components, in particular government effectiveness, rule of law, and control of corruption. Corruption among business executives, judges and magistrates, the legislature, and among government officials exerts the largest impact on COVID-induced deaths. We propose directions for future policy initiatives.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The transition from COVID-19 infections to deaths: Do governance quality and corruption affect it? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2024.01.002 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2024.01.002 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of The Society for Policy Modeling under a Creative Commons license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Corruption, Governance, COVID, Healthcare system, Socio-economic environment |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10189520 |
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