COVID-19 and public-sector capacity

Mazzucato, Mariana; Kattel, Rainer

doi:10.1093/oxrep/graa031

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“…Secondly, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of a government's capacity and capabilities to handle emergencies, and the protection of public health. This requires that governments have dynamic capabilities ( Mazzucato & Kattel, 2020 ), including coming up with innovative responses. However, when it comes to the role of government in promoting innovations, where “the literature implicitly holds that inventive capabilities were largely private and the government played little role in targeting and organizing innovation” (Thomson, 2014, p. 2).…”

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Breaking the chain: Governmental frugal innovation in Kerala to combat the COVID-19 pandemic

Sarkar

2021

Government Information Quarterly

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As the COVID-19 pandemic causes unprecedented disruptions in citizens' lives and work, prompting a wide range of responses from governments across the globe. The southern Indian state of Kerala, India's COVID-19 “ground zero”, stands out with a fatality rate at a fraction of other richer Indian states and countries. This has happened despite the state presenting strong vulnerabilities to COVID-19. Using the theoretical lens of frugal innovation, we analyse how the Kerala State Government (KSG) combated the spread of COVID-19. This research uncovers the mechanisms at play as KSG implemented and used frugal technologies as platforms that helped decision making and strategy to fight the pandemic. We find a rich interplay of frugal innovations promoted by the government, in partnership with research institutes and private sector actors, which are cheap and efficacious. The study defines and promotes the concept of government frugal innovation (GFI) and provides valuable insights and tools to help governments navigate and effectively respond to this crisis, encouraging the rest of the world to learn from Kerala's experience. Our conceptual model characterizes GFI as involving collaborative aspects, and holds practical implications beyond the times of crises.

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Breaking the chain: Governmental frugal innovation in Kerala to combat the COVID-19 pandemic

Sarkar

2021

Government Information Quarterly

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“…Likewise, we have never before had such an opportunity to examine the nature of online education, or the effect of school closure on mental health, and we should seize it, while taking into account the ecological validity challenges of the context of crisis in which these changes have taken place. And we need a whole new generation of digital government research to understand what worked and what went wrong with the use of data‐driven technologies in the pandemic, where data flows were missing and where data science modeling could have helped more in evidence based policy‐making, to build resilience into organizational capacity for the future (Mazzucato & Kattel, 2020).…”

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The Internet and public policy: Future directions

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In January 2021, the editorial team of Policy & Internet changed from the Oxford Internet Institute to the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney. This article invites all the past and current editors to contribute to the future directions and discussion of internet and public policy. It is collection of six contributions covering the trajectory of the internet policy research agenda, platform power in the digital economy, algorithms and the need for transparency, media diversity and platform regulation, speech in the age of content moderation and age‐gating the internet. The collection of essays highlights the past 10 years of the journal and paints a clear trajectory for the next era of Policy & Internet.

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“…At the time of writing, the value of the country's fiscal stimulus package was only about 4% of GDP, while the values of India's, Brazil's and Thailand's packages were about 7%, 15% and almost 13% of their GDPs, respectively (IMF 2020). Beyond fiscal stimulus, the public sector's capacity to manage the crisis-such as its capacity to adapt, learn and align public services as needed-affects national health and economic outcomes (Mazzucato and Kattel 2020). Vietnam has managed to quickly recognise the complexity of the Covid-19 problem by implementing a targeted testing regime and community-based surveillance program worth just under 2% of GDP.…”

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Managing Recovery and Seizing Reform Opportunities

Temenggung¹,

Saputro²,

Rinaldi³

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Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies

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The worst of the Covid-19-induced economic crisis appears to be behind Indonesia, with the economic contraction lessening in the second half of 2020. While the economic downturn in Indonesia has been modest compared with downturns in peer countries, Indonesia's handling of the pandemic has been lacking. Almost a year into the pandemic, the country was still struggling with the first wave of infection as the number of new cases reported each day continued to rise. Facing criticism over the government's handling of the pandemic, President Joko Widodo reshuffled his cabinet at the end of 2020. This Survey examines Indonesia's plans to manage a longer-than-expected recovery from the effects of the pandemic. We see that much of the labour market is adjusting to widespread loss of employment by shifting into the agricultural sector. We also see an increase in informal employment, leading to a lower unemployment rate than expected. We argue that the pandemic has exacerbated Indonesia's long-standing structural problems. In addition to responding to the immediate crisis issues, the government must start addressing medium-term challenges and seizing reform opportunities. We discuss the existing recovery policies, including the vaccination strategy and the omnibus law on job creation. We argue that the omnibus law alone is necessary but will not be enough to improve the investment climate and create jobs for economy recovery and long-term structural transformation.

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COVID-19 and public-sector capacity

Cited by 147 publications

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Breaking the chain: Governmental frugal innovation in Kerala to combat the COVID-19 pandemic

Breaking the chain: Governmental frugal innovation in Kerala to combat the COVID-19 pandemic

The Internet and public policy: Future directions

Managing Recovery and Seizing Reform Opportunities

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