ASOG Dean Mendoza presents a paper titled “COVID-19: Navigating Inclusive Recovery towards the New Normal”
18 May 2020
Last May 15, 2020, Ateneo School of Government Dean Dr. Ronald U. Mendoza presented a paper titled “COVID-19: Navigating Inclusive Recovery towards the New Normal” in a webinar organized by the Stratbase ADR Institute. Dean Mendoza discussed a framework to better understand the different phases of COVID-19 crisis response, spanning relief, recovery, and the possible “new normal”; and he elaborated on the balancing act between economic and health policies.
By drawing on a review of international and Philippine policy responses across these different stages, the paper contributes to the crisis response literature by developing a proposal to use the Philippine healthcare sector as a lynchpin of more inclusive and stable economic recovery. Better healthcare and crisis response systems could effectively contain the virus, while also minimizing the economic costs. Emerging evidence suggests that countries with adequate and more inclusive healthcare and social protection systems did not need to resort to draconian crisis contagion measures.
Dean Mendoza argued that what is needed are robust investments that build stronger inclusiveness and coverage by a country’s health system and enable this to rapidly re-align and ramp up absorptive capacities during a crisis should the need arise.
To read the full paper, please visit https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3598116.