The efficiency of nations in the struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic

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dc.contributor.authorAktas, Emel
dc.contributor.authorÜlengin, Füsun
dc.contributor.authorTopcu, Ilker
dc.contributor.authorGundes, Eda Helin
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-29T13:02:17Z
dc.date.available2022-04-29T13:02:17Z
dc.date.issued2022-04-01
dc.description.abstractThe COVID-19 crisis has caused unprecedented suffering across the world. Millions have become infected, and hundreds of thousands have lost their lives. Nations mobilised their health workers and infrastructure to curb the spread of the disease and cure the infected. This paper aims to investigate the efficiency of nations in their struggle against the COVID-19 and how their efficiency changed over time analysing data from June and December 2020 with a novel three-stage methodology. In the first stage, we clustered 107 nations into highly competitive, competitive, and non-competitive countries using their Global Competitiveness Index scores published by the World Economic Forum evaluate a country in a group of comparable countries. In the second stage, we used Data Envelopment Analysis to assess the efficiency of each nation. In the third stage, we investigated the relationship between countries' efficiency and performance in 66 variables published in the United Nations Human Development Report along with the long-debated aspect of a nation's political governance regime using Tobit regression. Based on the data in June and December, the USA and the UK were the worst performers in the highly competitive nations cluster, Chile and Peru were the worst performers in the competitive nations cluster, and Brazil and Mozambique were the worst performers in the non-competitive nations cluster, respectively. Air pollution, international inbound tourists, urban population significantly reduced while domestic credit and gross national income per capita significantly increased efficiency, but the political regime did not affect efficiency.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationAktas E, Ülengin F, Topcu I, Gundes EH. (2022) Chapter 17: The efficiency of nations in the struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic, In: Handbook of Research on Healthcare Standards, Policies, and Reform. IGI Global; US, Penn., pp. 282-319en_UK
dc.identifier.eisbn9781799888697
dc.identifier.isbn9781799888680
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8868-0.ch017
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/17836
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherIGI Globalen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectCompetitiveness Indexen_UK
dc.subjectCOVID-19en_UK
dc.subjectHuman Developmenten_UK
dc.subjectCluster Analysisen_UK
dc.subjectData Envelopment Analysisen_UK
dc.subjectTobit Regressionen_UK
dc.titleThe efficiency of nations in the struggle against the COVID-19 pandemicen_UK
dc.typeBook chapteren_UK

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