Public Administration and Policy: An Asia-Pacific Journal: Volume 26 Issue 1 , Open Access

Editorial Preface to the special issue

Introduction to the special issue

A review of public policies on Covid-19: the New Zealand experience

Robin Gauld

This article reviews New Zealand's journey through managing Covid-19. It provides a chronological overview of key developments. The article analyses the impacts of Covid-19 on…

Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic: strategies and challenges for an aging society in Japan

Tomonori Hasegawa, Koki Hirata, Kunichika Matsumoto

This article analyzes the challenges of infectious disease control under a super-aged society through Japan’s experience with COVID-19.

Health belief and behaviour: an analysis of the predictors for receiving COVID-19 vaccines in Malaysia

Consilz Tan, Chee Yoong Liew

The paper examines the ‘Intention to Receive the COVID-19 Vaccines’ or IRV from three perspectives: the health belief model, behavioural economics, and institutional quality.

Evaluation of the effectiveness of government intervention strategies to control and prevent COVID-19 in Malaysia by systems thinking

Jack Kie Cheng, Fazeeda Mohamad, Puteri Fadzline M. Tamyez, Zetty Ain Kamaruzzaman, Maizura Mohd Zainudin, Faridah Zulkipli

This paper aims to identify the interaction of different intervention strategies implemented in Malaysia towards flattening the curve of COVID-19 cases. Since the outbreak of…

Life skills for resilient leadership during pandemic times: the current and ancient Indian perspectives

Monika Bansal, Surbhi Kapur

Leaders today are continuously seeking models to navigate through the challenges posed by the pandemic times, so as to help the organizations flourish in the volatile business…

Government support to Pakistani women entrepreneurs during the COVID-19 pandemic

Nida Hussain, Baoming Li, Habib Elahi Sahibzada

Under the unique context of COVID-19, this paper aims to analyze how the Government of Pakistan (GoP) provides financial and non-financial support to women entrepreneurs in…

Exploring the role of policy actors in the implementation of social distancing: a case of COVID-19 in Pakistan

Muhammad Fayyaz Nazir, Ellen Wayenberg, Shahzadah Fahed Qureshi

At the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the absence of pharmaceutical agents meant that policy institutions had to intervene by providing nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs)…

An analysis of policies, challenges and outcomes in Pakistan through co-creation of COVID-19 responses

Aisha Rizwan, Shabana Naveed, Yaamina Salman

Based on the service eco-systems perspective, this paper evaluates the strategies and actions adopted by the Government of Pakistan to handle the COVID-19 crisis with the…