Anti-pandemic resilience assessment for countries along the Belt and Road route
BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic is sweeping the world, and countries along the Belt and Road (B&R) route have also been hit hard. However, the impact varied greatly from country to country, some severely and others mildly. What factors have led to such a wide variation?MethodIn this paper, w...
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| description | BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic is sweeping the world, and countries along the Belt and Road (B&R) route have also been hit hard. However, the impact varied greatly from country to country, some severely and others mildly. What factors have led to such a wide variation?MethodIn this paper, we considered institutional, infrastructural, economic, social, and technological resilience as components of overall anti-pandemic resilience, and constructed a set of indicators to evaluate this resilience for B&R countries in 2020. We evaluated the anti-pandemic resilience using the combined empowerment–VIKOR method, and classified the countries into different resilience levels by means of hierarchical clustering. The validity of the evaluation indicator system was verified by analyzing the consistency between the actual performance and the assessed resilience.ResultsThe ranking results showed that Israel and Bahrain were representative of countries that had the highest resilience, Hungary and Estonia represented countries with moderate resilience, and Laos and Cambodia represented countries with the lowest resilience. We also found that countries with high resilience had much better institutional and economic resilience than countries with moderate resilience, whereas countries with low resilience lagged behind in both infrastructural and social resilience. Based on these findings, policy recommendations were offered to help B&R countries respond to future pandemics. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-acd09575f9a245dda8ad5cab7c3d734d2023-11-02T16:46:58ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Public Health2296-25652023-11-011110.3389/fpubh.2023.11520291152029Anti-pandemic resilience assessment for countries along the Belt and Road routeLaijun Zhao0Mengmeng Min1Xiaoyan Huang2Ying Qian3Lixin Zhou4Pingle Yang5Business School, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, ChinaBusiness School, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, ChinaEmergency Management Office, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, ChinaBusiness School, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, ChinaBusiness School, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, ChinaBusiness School, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, ChinaBackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic is sweeping the world, and countries along the Belt and Road (B&R) route have also been hit hard. However, the impact varied greatly from country to country, some severely and others mildly. What factors have led to such a wide variation?MethodIn this paper, we considered institutional, infrastructural, economic, social, and technological resilience as components of overall anti-pandemic resilience, and constructed a set of indicators to evaluate this resilience for B&R countries in 2020. We evaluated the anti-pandemic resilience using the combined empowerment–VIKOR method, and classified the countries into different resilience levels by means of hierarchical clustering. The validity of the evaluation indicator system was verified by analyzing the consistency between the actual performance and the assessed resilience.ResultsThe ranking results showed that Israel and Bahrain were representative of countries that had the highest resilience, Hungary and Estonia represented countries with moderate resilience, and Laos and Cambodia represented countries with the lowest resilience. We also found that countries with high resilience had much better institutional and economic resilience than countries with moderate resilience, whereas countries with low resilience lagged behind in both infrastructural and social resilience. Based on these findings, policy recommendations were offered to help B&R countries respond to future pandemics.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1152029/fullBelt and Road countriesCOVID-19pandemic responseanti-epidemiccombined methodsempowerment method |
| spellingShingle | Laijun Zhao Mengmeng Min Xiaoyan Huang Ying Qian Lixin Zhou Pingle Yang Anti-pandemic resilience assessment for countries along the Belt and Road route Frontiers in Public Health Belt and Road countries COVID-19 pandemic response anti-epidemic combined methods empowerment method |
| title | Anti-pandemic resilience assessment for countries along the Belt and Road route |
| title_full | Anti-pandemic resilience assessment for countries along the Belt and Road route |
| title_fullStr | Anti-pandemic resilience assessment for countries along the Belt and Road route |
| title_full_unstemmed | Anti-pandemic resilience assessment for countries along the Belt and Road route |
| title_short | Anti-pandemic resilience assessment for countries along the Belt and Road route |
| title_sort | anti pandemic resilience assessment for countries along the belt and road route |
| topic | Belt and Road countries COVID-19 pandemic response anti-epidemic combined methods empowerment method |
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