COVID-19: Tracking East Asia's Response in Year One
On 25 June 2021, a panel consisting of faculty members from Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, as well as alumni of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, spoke on how Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan responded to the pandemic. The Social Inclusion Project also introduced a publicly-accessible online policy tracker, known as COVID-19 Policy Response in East Asia that compares the timing and content of COVID-19 pol
Pandemic leadership: beware of anecdotes
Leaders with science training have not outperformed other leaders in terms of their countries’ coronavirus responses, write Joachim Wehner (LSE) and Mark Hallerberg (Hertie School). Angela Merkel in August 2020. Photo: © Bundesregierung/Bergmann and German Presidency of the EU via a CC-BY-NC 2.0 licence When the coronavirus struck in 2020, some countries with seemingly world-leading levels of pandemic preparedness turned into COVID-19 disaster zones. During March 2020, Britis
