Despite its excellent public healthcare system and efficient public administration, Singapore
has been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. While fatalities in the city-state …

Since 2019, countries in the world have been facing many economic, political, social, and
health shocks and challenges that are not easily faced with the COVID‐19 pandemic …

The COVID-19 pandemic, an exceptional crisis, sparked the introduction of new digital
infrastructure to halt the novel coronavirus's spread. This paper explores how such digital …

This article investigates the nuanced and disaggregated role of state and civil society in the
fight against COVID-19 in Hong Kong and Singapore through a comparative policy study …

Singapore's response to the Covid-19 pandemic has largely been seen as timely and
effective, with border lock-downs and contact tracing efforts by city-state's policymakers …

Many developing countries have recently adopted a swathe of development strategies
ranging from extremely selective to non-discretionary, functional policies–some if not all of …

In the last two decades, cities have embraced advanced technologies such as artificial
intelligence, information and communications technology-based systems, internet of things …

The past two decades have witnessed far-reaching socioeconomic and political changes in
Asia, such as the growing intraregional flows of capital, goods, people, and knowledge, the …

Developmental state scholars argue that through “embedded autonomy”, state activism can
steer society towards positive outcomes without capture by private interests. This paper …

Although tax policies in Japan and South Korea have notably changed over recent decades,
few studies have thoroughly examined the nature of these changes. Building on the average …