http://digitalrepository.fccollege.edu.pk/handle/123456789/940 Wed, 24 Jun 2026 03:04:59 GMT 2026-06-24T03:04:59Z http://digitalrepository.fccollege.edu.pk/handle/123456789/2698 Title: Situation Analysis on the Effects of and Responses to COVID-19 on the Education Sector in Asia Case Study from Pakistan Authors: UNICEF; UNESCO Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://digitalrepository.fccollege.edu.pk/handle/123456789/2698 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://digitalrepository.fccollege.edu.pk/handle/123456789/2388 Title: The Impact of COVID-19 on South Asian Economies Authors: Younus, Uzair Abstract: This report examines the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, highlighting the social and economic costs on each country’s economy and underscoring the risk of political upheaval if the recovery is slow or unequal. The report is based on a research project funded by the United States Institute of Peace’s Asia Center to assess the political and economic implications of the pandemic in South Asia. Sun, 01 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://digitalrepository.fccollege.edu.pk/handle/123456789/2388 2021-08-01T00:00:00Z http://digitalrepository.fccollege.edu.pk/handle/123456789/965 Title: Combating COVID-19 in Asia and the Pacific: Measures, Lessons and the Way Forward Authors: Huang, Zhenqian; Saxena, Sweta C. Abstract: Governments in the Asia-Pacific region are taking administrative and policy actions to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic and its adverse impacts. Most countries and territories have adopted travel restrictions and social distancing policies to slow the spread of the disease. While many countries have rolled out fiscal and monetary stimulus packages, their scale and policy focus differ depending on their national circumstances, implementation capacities and how severely they have been affected by COVID-19 disease. In going forward, the region needs to invest in health and social protection systems and embed long-term sustainability into stimulus packages and recovery policies in order to strengthen resilience to future shocks. Policy coordination across countries is critical to ensure that no one is left behind. In just four months after the first cases of pneumonia, later identified as being caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), were reported, the virus has spread from that initial cluster in one country to more than 210 countries and territories around the world, including at least 42 in the Asia-Pacific region. As of 12 May 2020, more than 800,000 cases have been confirmed in the region, including over 23,000 deaths.1 The rapid evolution of COVID-19 shocked both the demand and supply sides of economies, and has posed huge economic challenges, threatening people’s lives and livelihoods. Measures undertaken have involved those to contain or mitigate the spread of the virus and minimize the adverse economic impacts, especially on the most vulnerable. Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT http://digitalrepository.fccollege.edu.pk/handle/123456789/965 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z http://digitalrepository.fccollege.edu.pk/handle/123456789/964 Title: Socioeconomic determinants of COVID-19 in Asian countries:An empirical analysis Authors: Varkey, Rittu S.; Joy, Justin; Sarmah, Gargee; Panda, Prasant K. Abstract: The spread of coronavirus disease, 2019, has affected several countries in the world including Asian countries. The occurrences of COVID infections are uneven across countries and the same is determined by socioeconomic situations prevailing in the countries besides the preparedness and management. The paper is an attempt to empirically examine the socioeconomic determinants of the occurrence of COVID in Asian countries considering the data as of June 18, 2020, for 42 Asian countries. A multiple regression analysis in a cross-sectional framework is specified and ordinary least square (OLS) technique with heteroscedasticity corrected robust standard error is employed to obtain regression coefficients. Explanatory variables that are highly collinear have been dropped from the analysis. The findings of the study show a positive significant association of per capita gross national income and net migration with the incidence of total COVID-19 cases and daily new cases. The size of net migration emerged to be a potential factor and positive in determining the total and new cases of COVID. Social capital as measured by voters' turnout ratio (VTR) in order to indicate the people's participation is found to be significant and negative for daily new cases per million population. People's participation has played a very important role in checking the incidence of COVID cases and its spread. In alternate models, countries having high incidence of poverty are also having higher cases of COVID. Though the countries having higher percentage of aged populations are more prone to be affected by the spread of virus, but the sign of the coefficient of this variable for Asian country is not in the expected line. Previous year health expenditure and diabetic prevalence rate are not significant in the analysis. Therefore, people-centric plan and making people more participatory and responsive in adhering to the social distancing norms in public and workplace and adopting preventive measures need to be focused on COVID management strategies. The countries having larger net migration and poverty ratio need to evolve comprehensive and inclusive strategies for testing, tracing, and massive awareness for sanitary practices, social distancing, and following government regulation for management of COVID-19, besides appropriate food security measures and free provision of sanitary kits for vulnerable section. Thu, 01 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT http://digitalrepository.fccollege.edu.pk/handle/123456789/964 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z