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Scorching Cities, Ageing Lives: Heat Vulnerability in Urban China’s Older Adults
Climate change is fundamentally altering the human living environment. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that health problems associated with high temperatures result in more than 250,000 annual deaths, highlighting the severity of this climate-related health emergency. Older adults often possess ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/thought-leadership-briefs/scorching-cities-ageing-lives-heat-vulnerability-in-urban-chinas-older-adults
Asian Economies Through the Pandemic
There is substantial variation in COVID outcomes and policy approaches around the world. In general, Asian economies have performed well in terms of limiting COVID cases and deaths, while also generating relatively strong economic outcomes, on the back of distinctively tough COVID restriction measures. There is also ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/thought-leadership-briefs/asian-economies-through-the-pandemic-skilling-tlb63
Singapore's Experience living with Covid: Policy lessons for Hong Kong?
Hong Kong and Singapore share a number of similarities: they are financial and business hubs, they are city-states, and their economies rely on their connectivity with the region and the rest of the world. Despite these apparent similarities, their approaches to Covid-19 have increasingly diverged. While both are ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/talk/2022/woo-wu-joong-low-sinapore-experience-living-with-covid-policy-lessons-for-hong-kong
Emerging Markets in Asia Need to Adapt Their Growth Model in a Post-COVID World
Key Points Asian emerging markets have prospered with an economic model that was heavily leveraged to a particular model of globalisation, notably through integration into global supply chains of manufactured goods.     This export-led model is now under significant pressure as globalisation ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/policy-briefs/skilling-emerging-markets-in-asia-need-to-adapt-their-growth-model-in-a-post-covid-world-pb3
Bureaucratic Representation and State Responsiveness: The 1918 Pandemic in India
Guo Xu combines personnel records with vital statistics 1910-1925 to study how bureaucratic representation affects mortality in 1,271 Indian towns during the 1918 Influenza pandemic. Exploiting the rotation of senior colonial officers across districts and a cross-border comparison, towns headed by Indian (as ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2020/xu-bureaucratic-representation-responsiveness-1918-pandemic-india
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