Much of the research on the ongoing pandemic has focused on the health and economic policies required to slow the spread of the disease and minimize its impact on the economy. The focus of this study is the political factors that influence policy-making. Specifically, we examine whether there is an association between women’s political empowerment and COVID-19 mortality. We use data for 168 countries, ordinary least squares regressions, and an instrumental variables approach to assess this relationship. Our results show that political equality by gender and participation by women in civil society associations are negatively associated with cumulative COVID-19 deaths.

In terms of time, finance and workforce, the emergency services can be costly for hospitals. Optimisation of the emergency services are important to provide sustainable efficient emergency service with minimum cost and labor. Due to the uncertainty and complex structure of the emergency service, optimisation of such complex systems by using traditional methods does not give accurate results. Analytical model based decision support tools can be an alternative to the traditional methods. In this work, we model emergency service using an agent based modelling where a multi-objective optimisation method was used to minimize personal cost and patient waiting times.

This book edited by Berna Pekesen provides a detailed evaluation of the 1960s in Turkey by the pioneering specialists of each topic from social, political, economic, and cultural perspectives. This review, after highlighting each paper of the book individually, points out some of the shortcomings of each contribution and levels a number of criticisms to them. It then concludes that the book is an important contribution to the Turkish social science literature.

Geographic area, market size and with similar characteristics in terms of economic growth BRICT (Brazil, Russia, India, China, Turkey) in the country, foreign debt, growth rate, public expenditure on education, financial and panel data analysis of military spending and health spending dominance effect It was investigated. As a result of the analysis, the existence of a long-term relationship between current account deficit and independent variables used as a measure of financial dominance was accepted. While no direct causality can be found from the expenditures to the current account deficit, it is determined that the most important factor affecting the change in the current account deficit is military expenditures. Military spending is followed by external debt, growth, education spending and health spending, respectively. As a result of these results, it can be said that military spending and foreign debt financing take precedence over the expanding education and health expenditures in BRICT countries.

This paper analyses the impact of foreign direct investment on labor productivity for the period 1994-2019 in Mexico. It proposes a production process with labor and three types of capital: private national, public national and foreign, and uses a human capital index, which we estimate through a vector error correction model. The estimation finds a long-run joint positive causality for the three types of capital on labor productivity. The contribution of private capital to economic growth is 2.6 times greater than that of foreign capital. If we add private and government capital, the contribution of national capital to economic growth is 3.2 times greater than that of foreign capital. The different contributions to growth of the three types of capital suggest the need for a change of strategy to one that relies less on FDI, and focuses more on domestic producers, making them more competitive and stimulating local private investment.