Vol. 71 (2020): Special Edition - "Governments and Covid-19"

Editorial

Countries worldwide have implemented lockdown measures to contain the covid-19 pandemic. After more than three months of restrictions to economic activities in many countries, the question has turned to the best ways to lift lockdowns while keeping the epidemic in check. Here I use basic...

This article seeks to estimate the initial economic costs of the measures adopted to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 in Rio Grande do Sul. To this goal, it uses a structural time series model estimated through Kalman Filter to obtain a counterfactual path of daily sales in the state after many...

This paper discusses the influences of mining on the spread of the new coronavirus in the largest mining municipalities in Brazil, since its determination as an essential activity to face Covid-19. The theoretical discussion approaches the doubt as to whether or not the spread of the new...

Pandemics are nothing new to the human race. From the Plague of Justinian to the current Covid-19, the world has seen all sorts of contagious disease. But do different political regimes react differently? We argue that the political regime has no major influence.  More specifically: democratic...

This work aims to verify how the Public-private Partnership contracts can be used as a tool for the policy makers to provide infrastructure in health services, specially seeking to fight the coronavirus pandemic, like the construction of hospitals and health centers, plus research and...

This work aimed to understand how Brazilian municipalities have been disclosing information on the novel Coronavirus pandemic. Starting from a representative sample of urban and rural municipalities according to Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) typology, it analyzes...

The objective of this research is to build a forecasting model for the evolution of COVID-19 in the state to assist governmental decision-making. This study adopts the Continuous Intelligent Pandemic Monitoring (CIPM) methodology to evaluate the COVID-19 situation in the state of Santa...

This study aimed to demonstrate the potential use of the problem analysis and definition, one of the Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) phases, as an alternative in directing critical, rational and logical thinking for the formulation of regulatory policies and actions to face COVID-19. The...

This article studied the judicialization processes related to the pandemic of the new coronavirus, within the scope of Administrative Law. The cases that reached the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court (FSC), available at the “Painel de Ações COVID-19”, were analyzed, as well as a sample of the...

Digital transformation, big data, artificial intelligence and data analytics are probably the most cited computational subjects in the news around the world. Commercial and technical reports (and papers), usually, indicate high level of success in the adoption of these approaches. In contrast,...

The pandemic caused by the covid-19 has prompted, in an urgent and unplanned manner, different orientations or governance models of the pandemic. Governments have proposed different models or guidelines to combat the pandemic, with inconclusive results. These models and the premises that...