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The moral and political economy of the pandemic in Bangladesh: Weak states and strong societies during Covid-19

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In this paper, the authors examined how the state exercised its capacities for coercion, control over lower factions within political society, and sought to preserve and enhance its legitimacy during the Covid-19 pandemic in Bangladesh.
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This article is published in World Development.The article was published on 2021-01-01. It has received 18 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Legitimacy & Government.

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Climate change, COVID-19, and the co-production of injustices: a feminist reading of overlapping crises

TL;DR: The overlapping global socio-ecological crises of climate change and COVID-19 pandemic have simultaneously dominated discussions since 2020 The connections between them expose underbellies of the global economy.
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The Aid Lab: Understanding Bangladesh's Unexpected Success

Naomi Hossain
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how the lessons of the famine led to a robustly pro-poor growth and social policy agenda, empowering the Bangladeshi state and its non-governmental organizations to protect and enable its population to thrive in its engagements in the global economy.
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The research on COVID-19 and economy from 2019 to 2020: analysis from the perspective of bibliometrics

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the existing studies on COVID-19 and economy from the perspective of bibliometrics, and showed the cooperation situations of the researchers from analyzing the related citation networks, co-citation networks and cooperation networks.
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Pandemic catch-22: The role of mobility restrictions and institutional inequalities in halting the spread of COVID-19.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used an instrumental variable approach to estimate the causal effect of state-led mobility and activity restrictions on mobility and the growth rate of confirmed cases and deaths during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the poor: Insights from the Hrishipara diaries

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the livelihoods of the poor in a semi-rural setting in Bangladesh and found that households drew down on their cash reserves at home as well as cutting down on non-food expenditures to protect their spending on food.
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Strong Societies and Weak States: State-Society Relations and State Capabilities in the Third World

TL;DR: Migdal as discussed by the authors proposes a model of state-society relations that highlights the state's struggle with other social organizations and a theory that explains the differing abilities of states to predominate in those struggles.
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Embedded Autonomy

Peter Evans
TL;DR: In this paper, state agencies, local entrepreneurs, and transnational corporations shaped the emergence of computer industries in Brazil, India, and Korea during the seventies and eighties, and the success and failures of state involvement in the process of industrialization have been analyzed.
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Consent, dissent, and patriotism

TL;DR: Levi as discussed by the authors argued that citizens' consent is contingent upon the perceived fairness of both the government and of other citizens, and that most of the time, most citizens are more likely to give their consent if they believe that government actors and other citizens are behaving fairly toward them.
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Mobilizing Policy (In)Capacity to Fight COVID-19: Understanding Variations in State Responses

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a collection of essays to gain insights into the different national-level state responses to COVID-19 around the world and the conditions that shaped them.
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