Capacity utilization

Pathology

Business

Public sector

Disease

Capacity development

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Computer network

Economic growth

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

Pandemic

Outbreak

Environmental economics

Economy

Capacity management

Virology

Economics

Microeconomics

Absorptive capacity

Capacity building

Production (economics)

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak

Computer science

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Industrial organization

Medicine

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

The paper argues that to govern a pandemic, governments require dynamic capabilities and capacity—too often missing. These include capacity to adapt and learn; capacity to align public services and citizen needs; capacity to govern resilient production systems; and capacity to govern data and digital platforms.

COVID-19 and public-sector capacity