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Subnational governments and COVID management

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  • Bandyopadhyay, Simanti
  • Kabiraj, Sujana
  • Majumder, Subrata

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In the backdrop of COVID, this paper is the first to investigate the role of different classes of indicators at the subnational (state) levels in managing the crisis, which would augment the role played by the central governments. Three distinct time periods are considered between August and November 2020. We sample three amongst the worst affected countries viz, India, Mexico and USA, belonging to three different stages of development. First, a meta frontier analysis with state level data is attempted to estimate the efficiency of COVID management using DEA. Country level efficiency scores increase over time indicating a positive role of experience in crisis management. The states in USA performed consistently better compared to states in other countries. An exploratory median analysis in the second stage shows that finance, development and governance indicators at the subnational levels prove to impact the performance in COVID management in varying degrees.

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  • Bandyopadhyay, Simanti & Kabiraj, Sujana & Majumder, Subrata, 2023. "Subnational governments and COVID management," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 124(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecmode:v:124:y:2023:i:c:s0264999323001116
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2023.106299
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    Keywords

    Subnational finance; Development indicators; COVID Management; Non-parametric methods; Meta frontier analysis;
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    JEL classification:

    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
    • C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
    • H70 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - General
    • H71 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
    • H72 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Budget and Expenditures
    • H75 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare

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